Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] all [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Rita May ( Mrs Archer ) , whose husband died very suddenly , has been grappling with all the problems of being now on her own after forty years of happy marriage , the last 20 of which were spent at Failand near Bristol , only a short distance from the former family home of Somerville 's Margery Fry . |
2 | ‘ We are looking into all the possibilities . ’ |
3 | walk in like that and you 're looking at all the things in the shop not where |
4 | I think they 're looking at all the |
5 | so I followed her and of course , we 're going past all the blooming classrooms ! |
6 | Now that , you 're talking about all the troops coming through . |
7 | But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip |
8 | They want access to Thailand 's 11 million smokers and they 're fighting with all the muscle available to them , according to Prakit Vateesatokit , of the Thai Anti-Smoking Campaign . |
9 | ‘ I suppose you 're thinking about all the gossip — about Riddle being the baby 's father ? ’ |
10 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
11 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
12 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
13 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
14 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |
15 | They 've been going through all the lorries that 've come into Dover today with some sort of connection with the Balkans . |
16 | These things are going on all the time . |
17 | Your only son is a college drop-out , and bleeding from the nose because his blood vessels are popping from all the cocaine in his system , and he tells you to keep your cool ! ’ |
18 | This is what the manufacturers of hi-fi equipment are striving towards all the time , and the DNA-replication process , as we have seen , is spectactularly good at reducing errors . |
19 | 7.1 The Agreement shall be binding upon all the parties and may not be assigned without the prior written consent of the other party . |
20 | 7.1 The Agreement shall be binding upon all the parties and may not be assigned without the prior written consent of the other party . |
21 | 7.1 The Agreement shall be binding upon all the parties and may not be assigned without the prior written consent of the other party . |
22 | ‘ We are building a team at Hillsborough which will be challenging for all the honours in the game . |
23 | We 'll be looking at all the stars of the show , like the mighty Tupolef Bear from Russia , a lasting symbol of the cold war . |
24 | Schofield said : ‘ I shall be looking at all the press cuttings when I get home and deciding what action to take . |
25 | That 's right , yeah she 'll be going through all the same thing trying to get money |
26 | There 's a cracking section called YOU MUST BE JOKING with all the wit of the willow . |
27 | A malinger round the monument is worth your while , if only for the extraordinary view down Loch Shiel and to reassure yourself that you will soon be leaving behind all the people milling idly around their coaches , to whom 1745 means quarter to six . |
28 | The Jews were walking into all the plum jobs , in the medical profession especially , which infuriated Odilo and his friends , and which , to be frank , even worried me . |
29 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
30 | Erm , when we were looking at all the markers like erm , |