Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [conj] [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has toured Driving Miss Daisy and is now starring in a Rodney Ackland play at Richmond called The Dark River , playing an elderly schoolteacher whose son was killed in the First World War . |
| 2 | He had worked in South America and was now exploring the Malay archipelago ( modern Indonesia ) . |
| 3 | It has two manned platforms , with 200 men on each , in the North Sea and is currently building a third . |
| 4 | The headmaster , who had just finished dispensing multiracial condescension to Mr Patel and was now turning gratefully to Dr and Mrs Frome , gazed with ill-disguised apprehension in the direction of Mr McWhirter . |
| 5 | Anne Davies , a former Senior Scholar and Social Secretary , moved back to the United States and is now working in the children 's section of a leading publishing house . |
| 6 | When last heard of — in the early Seventies — he had returned to the United States and was apparently working in a fast food restaurant . |
| 7 | It was the year that the Beatles released ‘ Revolution ’ , a record one American critic charged would be suitable for the Democratic Party 's 1968 platform , with Lennon 's put-downs of people who went talking of Chairman Mao and were n't going to make it anyhow . |
| 8 | Antwerp neglected the river Scheldt but is now making amends . |
| 9 | Other recent imports which have yet to aspire to UK marks include a pair of Aeronca 11AC Chiefs , NC3458E and N86359 , which arrived some time ago at Compton Abbas and are now undergoing rebuilt for UK registry while similarly the frame of Stinson 108 N97915 is being slowly worked on in the gliding club hangar at Booker . |
| 10 | By the time we had drunk our third bottle of wine Ellen and I had long reached New Zealand and were already sailing north towards New Caledonia . |
| 11 | Active Memory Technology Ltd , the ICL Plc parallel processing spin-out , has fallen into the hands of receiver Price Waterhouse and is currently tying up a rescue bid from a mystery American millionaire tycoon . |
| 12 | It has expanded into Europe and North America and is currently looking to the markets of Japan , the Far East and South America . |
| 13 | Which seemed to imply that Balliol had crossed the Fintry and Campsie Fells and was still heading southwards , presumably for the Clyde valley . |