Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
| 2 | In many cases pupils at Key Stage 2 will use the same kinds of resources as were used at Key Stage 1 , though they will be using them in a more sophisticated way . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 4 | I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again . |
| 5 | The first customers for the new service will be using it for a variety of applications . |
| 6 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 7 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 8 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
| 9 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 10 | Something tells me I wo n't be seeing her for a while either . |
| 11 | Then he observed in a flat tone , ‘ What a tragedy , in that case , that you wo n't be seeing him for a while . ’ |
| 12 | We may now be seeing something of a revival of the reformative approach . |
| 13 | for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts . |
| 14 | And now I find myself eating tomatoes in the winter , which must be considered something of a luxury . |
| 15 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 16 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 17 | I will be keeping them in a 36″ × 12″ × 15″ tank with small shoal of Serpae Tetras and a Plec . |
| 18 | Jess asked , though she 'd noticed the questions seemed to be driving him like a snail into his shell . |
| 19 | The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time . |
| 20 | We will be meeting them with a hail of stones if they show their faces . ’ |
| 21 | She had not stopped to think that she might be inserting herself into a social scene that she had walked away from when she had left home . |
| 22 | But you do n't seem to be advocating it as a way forward ? |
| 23 | If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time . |
| 24 | Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny . |
| 25 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 26 | Any moment now , Judi would be turning them into a Jury , appealing for their verdict on the Nielsen family . |
| 27 | So after today , I shall not be cleaning you for a week . ’ |
| 28 | Our client should be presenting us with a sheaf of paper with pink ribbon round it , saying , we would like a tender on that , fixed fee , by two weeks on Tuesday , or whatever . |
| 29 | THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend . |
| 30 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |