Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 2 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
| 3 | SOCCER : Harwich and Parkeston manager Martin Head is currently thinking over his future with the Jewson League club , which suggests he will have left by the start of next season.Head says , ‘ Both the club and myself are looking to next season and we are in the middle of talks . |
| 4 | The CIA 's code of conduct , which has been operating since last April , is now an integral part of the association 's Responsible Care programme , to which all CIA member companies have now signed up . |
| 5 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |
| 6 | Emily Faithfull , young , confident and securely middle-class , appears to have been Operating from first principles rather than speaking or understanding the language of journeymen printers . |
| 7 | ( ellipted items : been swimming in second clause ) . |
| 8 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 9 | ‘ My morale wo n't be shattered if we do n't win , I suppose we 're going for second place . |
| 10 | So yeah we 're talking we 're talking in terms of starting we 're talking about next week or the week after . |
| 11 | You 're talking about last year are n't you ? |
| 12 | Oh , we 're talking about sixth forms , Bill , and we 're talking about all schools which have sixth forms and you 're conscious that there are rather a lot of schools with sixth forms in the county and who will feel that it is a significant change . |
| 13 | Well we 're trying for first of March . |
| 14 | Yeah but then you 're gon na next year cut down on Saturdays are n't you ? |
| 15 | It seems to me that they are describing at first hand a world made up of physical materials similar to those which we can see and touch , with an invisible ( to most of us ) non-material life force much like the ether superimposed on it and within it . |
| 16 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 17 | Things are moving at last . ’ |
| 18 | For years , people have been calling for sixth form studies to be broadened and updated , but now the pressures for change have become urgent . |
| 19 | The 30-year-old Londoner hopes to be competing in next week 's UK Open in Preston , starting on November 13 . |
| 20 | A RECORD number of 737 snooker professionals will be competing in next season 's nine world-ranking events and that means nearly 5,000 matches will be played . |
| 21 | But no such agreement will be binding on third parties save to the extent that they have knowledge thereof . |
| 22 | ‘ Tim , it could be happening at last although the pain seems in the wrong place . ’ |
| 23 | But the number of police constables that we can have available , would make a big difference to the lives of the very ordinary people , and that 's where we should be looking at first . |
| 24 | And remember , although it 's a ‘ valve ’ preamp it 's not an ‘ all-valve ’ preamp like the Mesa Boogie TriAxis ( which we will be looking at next month ) . |
| 25 | In the study of crime , particularly with respect to its predictability ( and manipulability , which I will be looking at next ) , the more moderate versions of these two positions have shown some potentiality for convergence . |
| 26 | People were already tending to ignore these very works we 're looking at , theomonoism we 'll be looking at next week , gon na tell us about that , are n't you . |
| 27 | Yes , that 's right I 'm going to next Sunday as well . |
| 28 | Mr Keegan , 47 , said : ‘ It will be an enormous emotional strain on us but we are glad to be going at last . |
| 29 | World gold is what he 'll be going for next . |
| 30 | I have an open ticket for where I 'm flying to first . ’ |