Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [is] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you own or lease property where no-one is living you may have to pay a standard community charge in that area in addition to the personal charge in the area you live . |
| 2 | If ‘ story ’ suggests a narrative sequence towards which Double Or Nothing is gesturing , Federman it the same time questions each fictional possibility so thoroughly that the only reliable sequence becomes the narrative voice which is constantly shifting in person and tone . |
| 3 | ‘ Have you ever thought why it gets dark each evening ? ’ asks Phil one day , as they leave one coffee bar where nothing is happening , and walk to another , to find out if anything is happening there . |
| 4 | Figure 2.2 reflects an organisation without a strict hierarchy where everyone is working quite independently . |
| 5 | After all in an age where everyone is becoming more environmentally aware , perhaps it is only fitting that even artists are getting into recycling . |
| 6 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 7 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 8 | You 've got to look at them from different angles , see if there 's any smoke bellowing out from anywhere , or somebody 's hanging out of a window . |
| 9 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 10 | Erm you must have heard of the phrases of poncing , where somebody is operating a prostitute and if they do n't get a required amount of money a week or er er an amount of money where they consider it sufficient , they 'll probably go and beat them up or something like that . |
| 11 | I think it 's a difficult subject er in one where somebody 's starting up own business who has n't erm had any experience before |
| 12 | Ivy better : Coronation Street actress Lynne Perrie , who plays Ivy Brennan , was said to be ‘ slightly improved ’ today in hospital where she is undergoing tests following her collapse on the set of the series three days ago . |
| 13 | TRACY THOMPSON is a graduate of the Royal College of Art who is now based at Queen 's College , Oxford , where she is writing a dissertation on her experiences during two and a half years living in the Yemen . |
| 14 | ‘ She spent the night in intensive care after the operation , and then was moved to a private room where she is recovering . ’ |
| 15 | She has been seconded to the Civil Service Selection Board , where she is helping to devise the entrance competition for the ‘ fast stream ’ applicants to the Civil Service , Diplomatic Service and Tax Inspectorate . |
| 16 | Among the nominees attending the lunch , as recognition of their achievements , was Montgomeryshire nurse Sue Blower , who had returned specially from her work as a nurse tutor in Bucharest , Romania , where she is helping to set up that country 's first school of nursing for 40 years . |
| 17 | She now attends a drop-in centre which has a crèche and where she is learning to cope with stress . |
| 18 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 19 | Mrs Barzach will have a much more difficult time retaining her seat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , which she has represented for only the past three years and where she is standing against the well-established local RPR mayor ( and deputy mayor of the capital ) . |
| 20 | If you find it difficult to understand some of the feelings she expresses , you have to realise that she has reached a stage in life 's journey of which , as yet , you know nothing at all , and until you stand where she is standing now you are in no position to pass any judgement on her attitudes . |
| 21 | Ms Davidson , a Darlington artist , is based at Woodham Comprehensive where she is running a photography project for pupils . |
| 22 | Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College . |
| 23 | Scouting takes up much of Sarah 's spare time but she still squeezes in regular visits to Huddersfield Technical College where she is studying for two ‘ A ’ levels — geography and business studies . |
| 24 | Mrs X is at present attending a college where she is studying science , and desperately wishes to take up embalming as a career , but unfortunately this is where the problem begins . |
| 25 | Those eyes , sombre and steady yet lacking in curiosity , comfort her ; they seem to know her , who she is , where she is going . |
| 26 | Describing herself as something of a ‘ social victim ’ , she has temporarily torn herself away from urban distractions in favour of time and space at a ‘ country abode ’ , where she is working on material for a second album , due in November . |
| 27 | Rosemarie Ford is also superfit as she dashes regularly between London and Bristol , where she is starring as Grizabella in ‘ Cats ’ . |
| 28 | It 's worth up to £4,000 , but would-be murderer Sheila Stroud was allowed out of Holloway Prison , where she 's serving 18 years , and driven to Cheltenham to dispute Mr Stokle 's claim . |
| 29 | ON THE transatlantic phone from a Dallas hotel room where she 's having a rest from touring America as support to the Lemonheads , Juliana is often forthright and sometimes evasive , giving short , sharp answers to my silly questions . |
| 30 | She has two days off from her family where she 's working , so she comes those two days . |