Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | Now that a reaction is setting in , Mr Gorbachev is leaning back towards the conservatives to keep his balance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Marie 's sitting up on the bed with a packet of fags . |
| 10 | Andy 's coming along to the next C S M T |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mrs Wright was sitting down on the bank , the gun across her knees . |
| 15 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 16 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 17 | Ellen was hurrying out of the solar . |
| 18 | Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep , pretending to watch out for something in the sky . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed . |
| 23 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Like Abingdon , Kemble is handing over to the army . |
| 26 | The man who spotted it says it 's inaccessible without proper equipment so Mr Scales is getting through to the coastguards , sir . ’ |
| 27 | Group managing director Tom Hempenstall is moving up to the new post of chief executive . |
| 28 | Alan was sitting down at the end of the lawn , his back to the house ‘ so you do n't distract me ’ , finishing off some work for Monday . |
| 29 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 30 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |