Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I went to Drake Hall on one sentence I was waiting for another court case as well , a conspiracy case , a big one . |
| 2 | The seats are cushioned , and in the dark I am waiting for more than entertainment . |
| 3 | The Environment Committee I was talking about this proposal at this meeting . |
| 4 | I can well believe that at home I was going through some such process for many years before I became anorexic , as well as during the course of the disease itself . |
| 5 | The whole interior was marked by the same fastidiousness she was applying to this task ; every surface neat and polished . |
| 6 | We find it 's also useful back information , because they will be able to act on one client and has applications for proposal we are writing for another client later on so we can use as references refer to this information . |
| 7 | From a practical standpoint we are suffering from some jail overcrowding problems here and certainly this was one option to take an offender who does n't really belong behind iron bars and punish them at home , and from a personal standpoint I was sort of intrigued with the novelty of it all and the technology aspects of it . |
| 8 | no wonder we 're going through such a lot of paper |
| 9 | My Lords , I I think perhaps that at this stage er a contribution from the cross benches might not be out of place , since the issue we 're discussing in this rather complicated set of amendments is as the debate has already shown that one er not to be settled just on party lines . |
| 10 | I reject the shallow lectures we are getting from some quarters . " |
| 11 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 12 | However , most of the work he was doing at this time was of a minor nature . |
| 13 | Yeah and we see a lorry with a bloke he was doing like that looking out the back and we all go Ahhhh ! |
| 14 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 15 | Donna remembered with sorrow the number of humiliations she had endured from her in school , and the thought of exposing the contents of the parcel she was carrying to such a merciless judge unnerved her . |
| 16 | The drawing packages I 'm looking at this month have more widespread practical use than the painting packages I reviewed last month . |
| 17 | The point I am labouring at such length is that there is a large and complicated repertoire of non-verbal behaviour without which it is impossible to communicate meanings through the medium of spoken words and although it is tempting to regard this non-lexical repertoire as something which can be painlessly removed without any significant loss of meaning , the experience of reconstructing talk from a medium in which the representation of this aspect of speech is so poor is a salutary reminder of its importance . |
| 18 | The Department of Transport 's reply to my letter ( 12 March ) seems to have missed the general point I am making from this specific case , namely that travellers normally choose their mode of transport on the basis of perceived marginal costs ( ie the cost of petrol ) and conclude that it is a lot cheaper to use a car if you already have one . |
| 19 | The , the point I 'm raising with this is that he does seem , in that particular piece , he does quite strongly , to me anyway , that that individuation is still very strong |
| 20 | Up to a certain point I was succeeding in both roles , driven as I was towards success by anxiety and the fear of failure . |
| 21 | John , can I ask you full rehearsals during the holiday period , was was there any particular point you 're considering about that ? |
| 22 | As a florist you 're dealing with most important days in peoples ' lives , very often new babies , weddings , funerals , erm but no , I would n't say if weddings disappeared we 'd all be you know , in a terrible mess as a professionals , but it 's a very important part and an enjoyable part . |
| 23 | To her knowledge she had never led anyone into anything she could n't handle herself , but as he had pointed out before , she could n't always know what sort of reaction she was stirring in those who listened to her songs . |
| 24 | Twenty-two women , eight washbasins , two toilets , it 's just impossible ; twenty minutes to do all that and bunk your bed as well , and if you 're sleeping in a bunk in a crowded room you 're falling over each other trying to fold your sheets and blankets at the same time . |
| 25 | ‘ But within half-an-hour we were firing on all cylinders again . ’ |
| 26 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 27 | At the moment it 's pointing at this one two three directory , back-slash P back-slash one two three Now you point at the root directory |
| 28 | You get the feeling that BMW likes the attention it 's getting in this area — plenty of supercar glory by association without getting its environmentally friendly hands dirty . |
| 29 | Can I just say as we , one of the reasons we 're talking through this if you have something that yo , ah that might be useful ! |
| 30 | Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay . |