Example sentences of "[noun] is [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Ruritania is waiting for him in Strelsau and Black Michael with half the army , too . |
| 2 | Crosby is fighting for his job after the 5–2 defeat at Peterborough . |
| 3 | This is to help them understand how their own thinking is developing under your guidance . |
| 4 | A great deal is riding on his recent reconciliation with his former musical mentor Chaz Jankel . |
| 5 | Emotion is retreating from it . |
| 6 | Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time . |
| 7 | ‘ If you ask me , Miguel Rafaelo is falling for you . ’ |
| 8 | DAMON HILL is aiming for his elusive first Grand Prix win in the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend . |
| 9 | MOTOR RACING : DAMON HILL is aiming for his first Grand Prix win in the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole of this club is rooting for him and wishing him well , ’ added the comparatively young Liverpool chairman , who admitted to finding his first year in office ‘ a difficult baptism ’ . |
| 11 | The World Food Programme is helping with its largest ‘ food for work ’ scheme in Africa . |
| 12 | The Jockey Club says that it will be looking for a successor to Smiles , but while this search is going on his place will be taken by Tony Goodhew , the present Director of Field Services . |
| 13 | An ambitious lecturer in an English Department is writing for his peer group , not for the general public . |
| 14 | Andy is looking at my bag . |
| 15 | Similarly , in what seemed a particularly unconventional technique at the time , Michel Butor , in La Modification ( 1957 ) , employs a second-person narrative as a means , apparently , of voicing the monologue which Léon Delmont is conducting with himself as he travels from Paris to Rome to join his mistress , explaining to himself the history of his affair and anticipating how it will resolve itself . |
| 16 | I see myself drawing closer to Claudia Cohn-Casson , but not necessarily in the way that S. O. Letterman is expecting of me . |
| 17 | The two narrative modes walk side by side in bold yet relaxed society , and support each other in the face of the fact that Raskolnikov is shaking in his shoes . |
| 18 | Now , says Mr Donald Pais , GM 's vice-president of materials management , practice is shifting toward what he calls ’ collective progress' — The idea is to establish longer-term relationships with suppliers , and to involve them in product development much earlier — almost like internal departments of the company . |
| 19 | I 'm glad that you commented er , so favourably about brother Hayes ' er , attendance at your headquarters conference because , of course , brother Hayes is acting on my behalf in that capacity . |
| 20 | This woman with a red headscarf is looking at them and chatting to the man behind the stall . |
| 21 | ‘ Miss Weston is dining with me . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 23 | Are there events taking place that we will never ever see because they 're so far away , or maybe they 're taking place in such a way that they 're moving away faster than the light is travelling in our direction ? |
| 24 | When low down it seems to flash various colours , because its light is coming to us through a thick layer of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 25 | Then , just when she was feeling really at ease with him , he stepped back a pace , came in on the tail-end of her report on the new extra-calorie meal schedule they were working on , and undermined her equilibrium totally with the words , ‘ I like the way the dappled light is playing on your hair . |
| 26 | The Riverside Theatre in Coleraine is preparing for its first production of the new season . |
| 27 | ‘ Val Catto is working on your quarry 's credit card numbers now , ’ she said . |
| 28 | The last redoubt of the ‘ arm 's length ’ policy would then be the national theatre companies and a chorus of voices is calling for their retention by the Arts Council . |
| 29 | Well er , with a driving horse that 's completely opposite because yo your vehicle behind the horse is pushing against it |
| 30 | Having moved into the required pace then keep the horse balanced between your seat , legs and hands , by applying more leg into a restraining hand if the horse is falling on his forehand . |