Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he took no interest in gardening before his illness , he may find it refreshing to be outdoors looking at the different colours and shapes of the plants , smelling their fragrance , and watching the insects and birds they attract . |
| 2 | There are , finding fifty hectares or thereabouts for a development of this kind and characteristic out of the districts ' allocations on the one hand in their geography , you know that has to be broadly speaking within the existing settlement pattern on the other , not possible . |
| 3 | And as an Eclipse buyer , we 'd expect you to be equally discriminating about the look of your food . |
| 4 | Media columns , in which journalists take a critical look at themselves , seem to be conveniently missing from the Namibian press . |
| 5 | Media columns , in which journalists take a critical look at themselves , seem to be conveniently missing from the Namibian press . |
| 6 | Whilst the liberal-historians are less likely to be openly damning of the social changes they identify than are the conservative-historians , this should not be read as a sign of their approval . |
| 7 | I 'm going to be still working in the City , of course , and so I 'm hoping we can live somewhere near London . ’ |
| 8 | The Sheffield Wednesday stalwart insisted last night : ‘ I aim to be still playing at the top when the next World Cup qualifying bid starts in three years time . |
| 9 | A separate inquiry is believed to be still continuing into the other trustee , Coutts , which was responsible for the remaining five unit trusts . |
| 10 | Yet there is unlikely to be much dancing in the streets . |
| 11 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 12 | ‘ Please take notice that I sometimes need to be the real me ’ , is what she seems to be really saying through the way she 's portrayed herself . ’ |
| 13 | They might prefer to be irresistibly appealing in the nude , so would we all , but that ca n't always be the case . |