Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 4 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 5 | That 's my ambition to be roaring in against the Aussies next year . |
| 6 | ‘ The Archbishop seems to be harking back to the politics of guilt and the socialist faddism of yesteryear . ’ |
| 7 | But , whatever it is that her flooding liquid pigment does , one thing it always seems to be bringing about in the beholder . |
| 8 | His little blue bright eyes , hard and round , that seemed this morning to be protruding out of the shallow creamy lakes around them , were full of hate for her . |
| 9 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 10 | And I used to carry out their meals to the men , and they used to be eating out in the field then . |
| 11 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 12 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know exactly what we have up there , or what stuff we are likely to be sending up in the next few years … but I 'll take side bets on orbital weapons , either ready or in the pipe-line . ’ |
| 14 | He seems to be cashing in on the goodwill of those who regret the party 's ‘ new start ’ last month when it renamed itself the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) . |
| 15 | Now said to be hanging out with the totally lovable Morrissey . |
| 16 | But some quite surprising right-wing converts to the idea seem to be popping out of the woodwork , attracted by Mr Lawson 's mistitled idea of ‘ competing currencies ’ . |
| 17 | It 's a challenge and it 's just fun to be swooping around in the sky . |
| 18 | McDunn again ; McDunn seems to be settling out as the Colley specialist . |
| 19 | Moreover one of them was bound to be reporting back to the Questore , and since there was no way of finding out which he would have to keep them all busy if he was to do what Bartocci had asked . |
| 20 | Even Mr Akers seemed slowly to be coming round to the sensible idea that IBM should be broken up . |
| 21 | It 's a bit late to be coming on like the Angel in the House now . ’ |
| 22 | They come out of the heart and branch like a wishbone , one to each lung , do you see that , now the arrow direction is away from the heart and that 's a vein and you 'd expect that to be coming back to the heart would n't you ? |
| 23 | But it is a bad time to be coming back into the side with results poor and confidence low . |
| 24 | Well , volunteers for the diet seemed to be coming out of the woodwork ! |
| 25 | On that frozen trackway , however , I just stared at the grotesque thing lying in the snow ; the hand seemed to be thrusting up through the earth as if some ghoul was struggling to rise from its grave . |
| 26 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 27 | it seems a bit strange though , cos I mean , indirectly we seem to be giving back to the community . |
| 28 | Advance orders are said to be pouring in for the LP Portrait and single Blue Days . |
| 29 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 30 | A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force . |