Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife Alexandra are heading off to the sun and fun of Mauritius where he will head up English television and radio news for the local broadcasting corporation . |
| 2 | Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases . |
| 3 | As you 'll have heard , bass makers Warwick are branching out into the area of specialised bass amplification . |
| 4 | The British staff at Culham were pointing out to the eminent scientists that they are paid less than their colleagues from fourteen other European countries working alongside them . |
| 5 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 6 | Now that a reaction is setting in , Mr Gorbachev is leaning back towards the conservatives to keep his balance . |
| 7 | It is time to go downstairs , to see how Deirdre is getting on in the kitchen , to make sure the butlers are not drinking too much . |
| 8 | I do n't quite know , er morning always seems that much busier as regards food , so Ivan 's going up in the morning erm , you know why ? |
| 9 | RINGO Starr is going back on the road , but unlike his fellow former Beatle , George Harrison , his performances will have nothing to do with Transcendental Meditation , writes James Delingpole , Arts Correspondent . |
| 10 | Joan 's just rung see they come over for , all of them come over for dinner every Sunday , and er Joan 's er Andrea 's going out with a crowd of them today she 's in with a nice girl a girl er married and the husband , he 's treats Andrea as if it 's a baby sister , so he 's more or less looking after her which is Joan 's very pleased about |
| 11 | Marie 's sitting up on the bed with a packet of fags . |
| 12 | Andy 's coming along to the next C S M T |
| 13 | Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd , based in Bracknell , Berkshire is branching out into a new niche printing market with its 2140 MICR — hailed as the world 's fastest personalised Magnetic Ink Character Recognition printing system . |
| 14 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 15 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 16 | Back at Club Eleusis , Jahsaxa Penumbra was tripping out like the bad queen in a fairy-tale cartoon , the only omission being the thunderclouds and lightning round her head . |
| 17 | Mrs Wright was sitting down on the bank , the gun across her knees . |
| 18 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 19 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 20 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 21 | Ellen was hurrying out of the solar . |
| 22 | Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep , pretending to watch out for something in the sky . |
| 23 | Back again on Grace , Tilda was messing about at the foot of the mast with a black and yellow flag , one of the very few they had . |
| 24 | And he frets too that son Rob and daughter Heather are growing up with a part-time father . |
| 25 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 26 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 27 | The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed . |
| 28 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 29 | After a quick glance back through the shop ( Maisie and Ruthie were staring out at the street in silence ) Henry slid one sheet of the printed paper into Gordon 's typewriter . |
| 30 | At the age of 47 , Robert De Niro is coming out of a creative crisis and entering a new phase as a movie mogul . |