Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] be [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jan 's got er the sa Jan 's doing the same as me |
| 2 | Windsor thinks that several F1 stars are eyeing the US scene . |
| 3 | Yeah I do Stefan , I mean i it 's very vigorous int it , when it gets established and it grows very upright as well and of course it 's deciduous erm some people call it a shrub , some people call it a tree but I , I will think that er Mrs is doing the right thing by cutting it back , especially if it 's a small garden , it would make a better bush in the garden I think if she does that and the these little white flowers really in are nice are n't they ? |
| 4 | Would the er patients be seeing the doctor as well as the midwife during this few months before they were going |
| 5 | Du Guesclin was reorganising the French armies , our old king was doddering and there was no need for English swords in France , so we sailed for Outremer . |
| 6 | The same message is coming over time and time again : man 's activities are destroying the planet , and the environmentalists are the most likely people to save the planet . |
| 7 | We learned soon that the money for Frank had come from the wife of our new romantic juvenile , Laurence Wheldon , a blonde and willowy man whose good looks far exceeded his acting powers but whose wife 's money was underwriting the company , to say nothing of her husband 's ambitions . |
| 8 | It is when there are two diners present , even when one of them is one 's own employer , that one finds it most difficult to achieve that balance between attentiveness and the illusion of absence that is essential to good waiting ; it is in this situation that one is rarely free of the suspicion that one 's presence is inhibiting the conversation . |
| 9 | Rosa 's fingers were twisting the ends of her belt . |
| 10 | Some of Ted 's opponents were finding the Backdoor . |
| 11 | By the time they are five or six , most children 's breathing is going the opposite way of what nature intended . ’ |
| 12 | However , if the UK company asks the Calcutta office to carry out the work , disclosure is required , as the auditor 's associate is doing the work for the UK company . |
| 13 | Of course , David 's bodyguards were guarding the door and I went to see what they wanted and this guy , who said he was the night detective , announced that unless we emptied the room in five minutes , he was going to close the party down . |
| 14 | In fact the volume of traffic on Scotland 's mountains is making the sighting of anything more exotic than a slug increasingly difficult . |
| 15 | This would be the most natural way of questioning any of the predicative adjectives in ( 30 ) — and could be used just as well for the second and third cases of ( 28 ) : ( 30 ) his accountant was sensible Helen 's profile is striking the new coin is octagonal Just as the contrast between how ? and which ? reflects the contrast of structural position between postnominal attributive and predicate qualifier , so the contrast of question words between how ? and what ? or what … like ? allows us to infer that an adjective in ordinary predicative position is not a plausible origin for the predicate qualifier . |
| 16 | Make sure that the baby 's body is facing the breast and that he or she is taking the whole nipple to fill its mouth . |
| 17 | Finally the doctors sat Sandra down and told her Kelly 's body was rejecting the organs — and gave her six months to two years to live . |
| 18 | Could the person who was dealing with Stavanger 's post be using the address also for himself — or herself ? |
| 19 | The vole , he says , appears to be coming perilously close to being endangered ; and this means that Britain 's wetlands are going the same way . |
| 20 | Go higher up the chain of command only if the boss 's behaviour is affecting the rest of the staff . |
| 21 | However , an influential group of central committee members made it clear they felt that Mrs Mandela 's behaviour was damaging the image of the organisation and the reputation of her husband , who appears to view her as ‘ a wayward child ’ . |
| 22 | The rate at which Westerners are consuming the earth 's resources is destroying the planet . |
| 23 | Another of Gran 's memories was witnessing the last public hanging in Salisbury when she was twelve . |
| 24 | This year Biggin 's organisers are opening the show site a day early , on Friday 19 June , to give the public an opportunity to see aircraft arriving for the Air Fair and watch performers practising for the airshow . |
| 25 | Mafouz 's father was cradling the boy in his arms and saying , in a deep voice , ‘ Speak to me , Anwar ! |
| 26 | The storm , the wind , the rain and the continually fogged glass from Cardiff 's breath was obscuring the view . |
| 27 | The cat 's owner was leaving the area and could not keep the animal , and she wanted it to have a nice home . |
| 28 | The jail 's governor is describing the allegations as rubbish . |
| 29 | Encouraging parents to take a more active part in their children 's learning is persuading the customer to do more work . |
| 30 | And all this at a time when China 's leaders are asking the PLA to do a bigger job than ever before . |