Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] near " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysing the current is more difficult because what you see on the surface may be very different from what is happening near the river bed . |
| 2 | Speaking brightly to close the gaps , as if at a party ) : So it 's getting near Christmas . |
| 3 | ‘ Ee — well , it 's getting near my time for going home , I think I 'd better be making a move … ’ |
| 4 | It 's getting near the end of the financial year . |
| 5 | ‘ There might be some spare cash floating around since it 's getting near the end of the year . ’ |
| 6 | Well that 's getting near it , but not members of the police authority who are in and should have the role of non-executive directors . |
| 7 | Cos I 'm , I 'm getting desperate cos it 's getting near the actual time . |
| 8 | you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ? |
| 9 | No I do n't think it 's that , I think it 's cos it 's getting near the end of the tape . |
| 10 | then you can go to indirect pressure and try to control the flow of bleeding by using indeed direct pressure , away from the wound , but where an artery , okay , is running near a bone , so you can compress the artery against the bone squash it hard , and for the arm you 'd use this one under here called the breaking now press , move your biceps muscle away and press underneath there , you can perhaps try to feel it for yourself , did you do that this morning or not ? |
| 11 | Mummy the dog 's sitting near the table . |
| 12 | Oh look he 's standing near Leggio look . |
| 13 | I 've only read up to the bit where he 's standing near the hooker . |
| 14 | A member of the German Wire Company is conducting a line test on one of the telephones , and the Turkish interpreter , a young , olive-skinned Lance-Corporal with only two of his eighteen months ' national service remaining , and known to all by his first name of Ercan because his surname is unpronounceable in English , is standing near the entrance drinking coffee and smoking a foul-smelling cigarette . |
| 15 | Let's say you are in a room with a big table in the middle of it ; and your attacker is standing near the only exit . |
| 16 | His son is standing near the main entrance , ready for the journey , carrying a stick , a spear and a small leather bottle , similar to the sort of thing drunken youths use to squirt wine down their throats before braving the bulls in Pamplona . |
| 17 | Frank is sitting near Dave cos he had his fag |
| 18 | WATER treatment group Bimec is hovering near the plug-hole after plunging to interim losses of £7.9m . |
| 19 | After a day 's botanising near Tunbridge Wells , they relished ‘ a bottle of pretty good Madeira and a couple of large rabbits , well dressed ’ . |