Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No problem Mr Prospect , I 'm glad you feel that way however I am seeing you in a fortnight 's time , have a chat with him between then and now and when I see you next week I 'll ta or whenever the time 'll be , I 'll take his telephone number from you then . |
| 2 | This seems , this seems a worthwhile thing to do to me , Chairman , this may reflect that , this position that we are in the business cycle that er , you know , with a slightly optimistic outlook , a lot of firms are seeing themselves in a position to expand and , and need this to help them do so . |
| 3 | The Irish are seeing something of a cricketing revival … it 's the fastest growing sport in their home country , and they feel confident about taking on the World 's best . |
| 4 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 5 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 6 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 7 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 8 | DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses . |
| 9 | Twin humbucker guitars are enjoying something of a rebirth at present , thanks mainly to the players who are treading that particular path ( I 'm thinking of Nuno , Satriani & co ) and having played Strat derivatives for so long , it 's easy to forget just how good a neck humbucker sounds at full throttle . |
| 10 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 11 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 12 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 13 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 14 | Sometimes we are to treat it as a drawing of a box , sometimes as one of wire frames . |
| 15 | People who do n't have a real understanding of vibe are adopting it as a pose . ’ |
| 16 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 17 | Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . |
| 18 | I 'm not surprised your Julidochromis have n't bred and have fallen out if you are keeping them in a community tank ! |
| 19 | I am opening myself as a channel to the Light . ’ |
| 20 | Many solicitors , in writing a letter for a client , will misrepresent the law , even though they are addressing themselves to a layman , and will lend themselves to various abuses and suppressions ( not involving a breach of law ) in order to obstruct a just claim . |
| 21 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 22 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
| 23 | This is a similar sort of thing to passing current through , but this time we 're using it as a battery . |
| 24 | You 're becoming nothing but a delinquent ! ’ |
| 25 | We 're keeping it as a monument to its origins during the war |
| 26 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
| 27 | You 're eliminating one at a time . |
| 28 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 29 | They 're promoting themselves to a very significant extent on the basis that they 're selling at cheaper prices to the public . |
| 30 | And the way the management work in here , I can say is they , aim they 're promoting anybody to a chargehand they usually promote somebody that 's actually no threat to themselves . |