Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] [art] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole South Sussex team had been driving round the country in a vast aluminium horse box , evidently the latest thing in America , and Kevin had provided each player with four top-class ponies . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that that has been happening in the country at large and that they have now been rumbled . |
| 3 | He said to protesters : ‘ I think the Timex situation is an indication of what has been happening in the country over the last 10 to 15 years . ’ |
| 4 | What I would say is there are instances that have been happening around the country in the last year , where both doctors , G Ps , and nurses have actually said , you 're not doing that . |
| 5 | That is not to say the process is not quicker when you are living in the country concerned . |
| 6 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 7 | For many people in Britain , ethnic relations means immigration and the apparent belief that large numbers of people are pouring into the country and making it overcrowded . |
| 8 | Large lapel buttons have been selling across the country depicting a white man in front of three other men : an Oriental wearing a coolie hat , a Sikh in a turban and a black man clutching a spear . |
| 9 | Enquiries come from people who are retiring , are moving to the country , or simply want to restore buildings as a hobby . |
| 10 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 11 | The President could issue decrees which would be binding throughout the country . |
| 12 | If we had really reached a state where a bloody and unprovoked attack on four unarmed members of our police provoked only glee and pleasure in the public then neither I , nor anyone else , would be living in a country we recognised . |
| 13 | Here you are , about to be launched in your own right as a successful couturière and I 'm living in a country thousands of miles away , helping to manage a thoroughbred farm . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm going to the country club look in |
| 15 | The need for short term care is therefore of paramount importance , yet this is a facility felt to be lacking throughout the country . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll tell you what I 'm finding round the country day after day , ’ he shouted above the traffic . |
| 17 | ‘ We will be campaigning throughout the country on the theme ‘ the betrayal of Britain by the Conservative Party ’ , and saying the tax increases are merely to pay for mistakes of the past . ’ |
| 18 | Since February , United Nations military and civilian personnel , who will make up the UNTAG ( United Nations Transitional Assistance Group ) peacekeeping forces , have been arriving in the country ready to monitor the ceasefire and elections . |
| 19 | You are talking about a country of power , privilege and class . |
| 20 | Former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra said that supporters of the former right-wing dictator Gen. Anastasio Somoza were returning to the country and attacking the FSLN . |
| 21 | That there was a that they were gon na be trailing behind the peasant movement and that how that they had to sort of get a hold over all the all the changes that were happening in the country . |
| 22 | Those who did go before 1560 were writing about a country which the English wanted to conquer . |
| 23 | ‘ They were writing about the country , but they were n't from it . |
| 24 | My father was in the army , we were living in the country , and she stayed and worked in London . |
| 25 | Under the astute leadership of its general secretary , Bruce Kent , it made room for the various local and single-issue groups that were mushrooming around the country . |
| 26 | Mike King , national officer of the Civil and Public Servants Union , told a fringe meeting that drugs were pouring into the country . |
| 27 | But in the 1880s a successful means of refrigerating meat cargoes was found , and within a few years Australian and Argentine beef , New Zealand lamb , and American pork were flooding into the country . |
| 28 | We were going to a country pub for lunch . |
| 29 | The several centuries of the ‘ Dark Ages ’ that followed the Roman withdrawal from Britain were a period in which peoples from northwest Germany and Denmark were coming into the country . |
| 30 | They were travelling along the country lanes by now , and the hum of the engine was soothing . |