Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McFarlane , former boss , eagerly kept contact with the cause on his home computer , aching to be part of it again : North , in reply , urged him to ‘ keep the faith ’ . |
| 2 | And it is important to keep as firmly in mind that this is what the reader wants to know , as it was in writing the blueprint detective story to remind oneself constantly that what the reader is looking for is hints towards answering the question " Who did it ? " |
| 3 | What we are looking for is evidence of imagination , lateral thinking and the designer 's ability to solve technical problems . |
| 4 | What I 'm looking for is feedback from the clients which say , yeah , these reports are alright as far as they go but really I do n't want all that information or I want this information . |
| 5 | What I 'm looking for is information about myself . |
| 6 | Men , standing nobly upright on two feet as they take their bladder relief , tend to look all around them , focusing on a glorious horizon and fantasising about being master of all they survey . |
| 7 | One in particular which appeals is touring Yorkshire nightclubs with me pretending to be Eric in a posh suit , mumbling inscrutable French-sounding noises and effortlessly impressing the girls . |
| 8 | They will have to choose between pretending to be friends of the farmer and lackeys of the environmentalist . |
| 9 | He had n't yet said who ‘ they ’ were , but Robert had a fairly good idea that some of them might well be unemployed young men pretending to be Muslims in order to worm their way into jobs that should have been occupied by the Faithful . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was just someone pretending to be Viola for security reasons . |
| 11 | pretending to be extras in ‘ The Dukes Of Hazzard ’ |
| 12 | There were conflicts within individuals who found themselves looking nostalgically to their own tribal past while at the same time wanting to be part of the newly emerging social and economic order . |
| 13 | Erm he started his life er in Vietnam in the violence of Vietnam , and had therefore a lot of violence in his early life , which I think really stayed with him , but when he did join the Army , he was very proud to be doing so , and very proud to be wanting to be part of Britain and serving Britain in whatever way he could . |
| 14 | Ross claims that the Promix system it acquired in 1991 having taken over Pioneer Systems ( CI No 1,730 ) is one of the few available packages specifically designed to address the booming process manufacturing market , with other offerings tending to be adaptations of discrete systems software . |
| 15 | Susan Coltman , a long-standing friend of Paula , giving evidence on the third day of the trial , said Gilfoyle added he was training to be part of a specialist emergency team dealing specifically with suicides . |
| 16 | I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King . |
| 17 | No formal examinations are specified for the certificate programme but HCIMA will expect some form of unseen ( possibly end of study ) testing to be part of the assessment schedule . |
| 18 | There 's going to be changes after that cup defeat at Porstmouth … |
| 19 | So I , if there are going to be changes in French erm France 's relations with its neighbours within the E E C , erm I do n't see that they can be very quick , and I do n't see that they can ultimately be all that large . |
| 20 | However , there are going to be difficulties in developing private care agencies . |
| 21 | ROS : ( To GUIL ) It 's going to be chaos on the night . |
| 22 | There are clearly going to be conflicts between what is good for individual animals and what is good for a population , species or ecosystem . |
| 23 | Of course there are going to be times in your life when you feel sad or unhappy and , at such times , it is perfectly natural to cry . |
| 24 | Is there going to be honey in the city ? |
| 25 | Now is the right time for something even bigger to happen , and we 're looking to broaden the whole idea of workwear into a promotion of quality , utility clothing : the slogan at PIL is going to be Function as Fashion . ’ |
| 26 | Er Heidi 's going to be Aladdin in er Wendy 's production . |
| 27 | Nathan is n't going to be part of it ? ’ |
| 28 | If you are involved with local politics , meeting people is going to be part of your task — unless you are ready to spend the whole time in a backroom stuffing envelopes . |
| 29 | I mean the government is pushing er spelling a as as something which is very important spelling is going to be part of all course work as well as all examinations now ! |
| 30 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |