Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] [det] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 2 | Lee Doherty summed it up afterwards when he said : ‘ We 'll settle for the 3–1 win , but you would n't want to be watching that kind of football every week . |
| 3 | Christian Hosoi , who was meant to be getting some sort of subsidiary company through Vision , is now working to get a sub-company set up through H Street : this will eventually be similar to Chris Miller 's Planet Earth . |
| 4 | Are n't we supposed to be getting this sort of thing from Carry On Columbus next month ? |
| 5 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
| 6 | In the passages to which I have referred I understand Lord Reading C.J. to be predicating some measure of compulsion in addition to the unlawful demand before recovery is available . |
| 7 | Yet the yawning emptiness out here upon the vast deck already seemed to be swallowing any sense of connexion with the interior of the fortress-monastery … |
| 8 | Werewolf seemed to be conducting some sort of slaughter out there . |
| 9 | The fog had fallen overnight and did not seem to be showing any sign of becoming less thick . |
| 10 | His eyes glinted through the black lashes and for a moment he seemed to be offering some sort of olive branch . |
| 11 | It might dilute the real body of work which I felt to be making some kind of contribution . |
| 12 | The Harvard linguists seem not to be making this kind of claim , however . |
| 13 | So , but I , I think he thought Ken meant that he was like superior and he did n't ought to be doing that sort of job . |
| 14 | Let me now take the propositions in order , examine them individually , and then indicate how , in my opinion , the employers came to be talking this kind of tripe . |
| 15 | They were quietly seething , June 1988 may not have been the right time for demonstrations , but parts of the student body and some sectors of the urban population appeared to be contemplating some form of action to let the government know of their intentions . |
| 16 | He seemed to be having some kind of fit . |
| 17 | So I think we would want to be pressing that sort of point er , on them . |
| 18 | Did you expect to be raising that sort of money ? |
| 19 | The driver seemed to be playing some kind of survival game with the girls of the Navimore School : he slowed down out of courtesy to the bus stop sign , but took it no further than that . |