Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've made sure that I am seen talking to you at the time of this man 's arrest in a public place . |
| 2 | Why should n't I be seen talking to an old mate , eh ? ’ |
| 3 | But , as with the other acts on the bill tonight , I 'm left wondering to what end and with what aspirations Till September are here tonight . |
| 4 | The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP . |
| 5 | The main exception involves items made by the Christian Armenians , who occupied much of the Caucasus , eastern Anatolia and parts of Persia , which are dated according to the Gregorian calendar . |
| 6 | Sandison draws attention to the citation of methodological papers , which are cited according to their utility , rather than their novelty or intellectual value ( See Weinstock , above ) . |
| 7 | Each ‘ module ’ is given a ‘ name ’ , ‘ status ’ and ‘ unit-points ’ ( which are allocated according to the status of the ‘ module ’ ) . |
| 8 | They do n't really give erm much of an account for w how it is that erm similar objects which 're grouped according to their laws erm can be perceived differently in different contexts . |
| 9 | If we move away from the national level to consider the smaller local communities , or particular institutions such as factories and offices , colleges and schools , it is quite clear that there are no problems of either size or communications which stand in the way of their being governed according to the principle of direct participatory democracy . |
| 10 | The basic requirement is for a carry flag , a one-bit processor register which is set according to whether or not carry occurs out of the accumulator during an arithmetic operation ; the carry is out of the left-hand or next to the left-hand bit position , depending on whether the left-hand bit Position participates in multiple.length arithmetic or not . |
| 11 | The Governing Body has decided that the income from this fund , which is used according to the By-Law to provide Edith Haynes Scholarships for either undergraduates or graduates of the College at the discretion of the Governing Body , will for the present be available to make grants in the first instance to mature graduates of the College who wish to continue or resume academic work , and are ineligible for State Studentships , or similar public support , by reason of age or inability to meet the requirement of residence in the U. K. Should no such applicant come forward , graduates of another university who are or have been members of the College reading for a further degree will be considered eligible . |
| 12 | Soon he was absorbed in the workings of the pistol , which was designed according to principles that were new to him . |
| 13 | Those who are called according to its rules are justified by their reward . |
| 14 | To them who are called according to his purpose . |
| 15 | And you were seen talking to your pal Jordan who is on the case . |
| 16 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 17 | She 's stopped talking to me . |
| 18 | Wearing a chic black costume and white fur wrap , she is seen waving to him as he departs for the colony before walking away to a smart car beside which stands a chauffeur . |
| 19 | As far as small schools are concerned , erm one of the things that that became clear during the debate on Banbury School was that the school itself is funded according to the formula that is allocated for all the other Oxfordshire eleven to eighteen schools and it is not something additional . |
| 20 | The database itself is structured according to the uses to which the data are to be put ( Section 2.4 ) . |
| 21 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |
| 22 | She was seen talking to a man outside the house by a neighbour at 1pm , then vanished without trace . |
| 23 | We 've come to Jesus Christ , he 's forgiven us our sins , we 've been made new creatures , we are saved according to Athesians two eight . |
| 24 | We are left talking to each other almost as if we had met before . |
| 25 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 26 | Unhappily a gale of enormous force then blew up which threw the marquee to the ground and we were left clinging to the posts in order to remain upright . |
| 27 | They are classified according to the number of openings in the skull . |
| 28 | Second , when they are raised , they are resolved according to the simple criterion of political muscle power . |
| 29 | Some standardised measure of dementia was needed , partly as a criterion of entry to the project , partly so that action and control samples could be compared to see if they were matched according to level of mental impairment , and partly to compare any changes over time . |
| 30 | In addition they were stratified according to Child 's classification ( A or B ) . |