Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cosmetic companies are building on their foundations for black skin this spring : |
| 2 | Old issues are re-emerging from our history books on to the political agenda : the status of Germany , the problems of the Balkans , the ambiguous relations of peripheral countries like Britain and Russia to the politics of Central Europe . |
| 3 | Thus we are accumulating in our local rubbish dumps tons of baby excreta , some of it infected , which sooner or later will dribble into our water supply . |
| 4 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 5 | I am weeping in my pillow . |
| 6 | At the Versace emporium on London 's Bond Street , customers are clamouring for his suggestive leather look . |
| 7 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 8 | So fair to say , the staff are depending on their tips to supplement their salary |
| 9 | DEC already has the incomplete version 1 of the OSF operating system out on its MIPS line , and it 's this that customers are using for their own early development work . |
| 10 | Having turned towards your track at a certain angle , you now wait for your RC to move to a bearing where it is displace from 0° ( station ahead ) or from 180° ( station astern ) the same number of degrees that you are using for your interception angle . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 'll argue until the day I die that we are singing about something serious . |
| 12 | At first it seems the girls are singing in their native tongue . |
| 13 | She had been resting against his trunk and now he could see what had happened to it . |
| 14 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 15 | Not only do they write of their personal experiences , speculations and fears , they also begin to imagine what people they know are thinking , saying , and most of all , what they are typing into their word-processors . |
| 16 | He had been toying with her that day on the river , playing games to satisfy some peculiar quirk of his character . |
| 17 | Like a cat with its prey , Microsoft has been toying with its competition , threatening to hang a predatory $100 introductory price on the stuff . |
| 18 | Like a cat with its prey , Microsoft has been toying with its competition , threatening to hang a predatory $99 introductory price on the stuff ( UX No 413 ) . |
| 19 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 20 | Two days later , the most beautiful bloom burst forth which appeared to mimic a flow 3D diagram Margaret had been producing on her computer ! |
| 21 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 22 | Japanese computer firms such as Fujitsu , Hitachi and Nippon Electric ( NEC ) , which are competing with Us firms to build the world 's fastest ‘ supercomputer ’ have also expressed interest in using the idea to develop an optical processing technology . |
| 23 | We send in negative data on our peers — those who are competing with us for more powerful positions . |
| 24 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 25 | Mr Broom says : ‘ The hypnotherapeutic approach is considered particularly relevant for assistance in distance running because in a very real sense you are competing against yourself . ’ |
| 26 | IF YOU are catering for yourselves and driving to the resort , stock up at a hypermarket before you get there to avoid paying astronomical prices . |
| 27 | So on gaining the top , where the walkers are tucking into their second pork pie , the rock-climber needs some way to distinguish him or herself as greatly superior . |
| 28 | Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates . |
| 29 | misfortune , and yet , and yet the cost of putting them into a bed and breakfast would stop those people 's houses going on the market and it would stop those people who are benefitting from it , from benefitting from it |
| 30 | For deaf people , this isolation may lead to lack of access to the legal machinery of statementing , which presently conveys at least some protection to those who are struggling with their education . |