Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [v-ing] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me now take the propositions in order , examine them individually , and then indicate how , in my opinion , the employers came to be talking this kind of tripe . |
| 2 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 3 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
| 4 | Past and present seemed to be animating each other in almost an Eliotic manner . |
| 5 | Yet the yawning emptiness out here upon the vast deck already seemed to be swallowing any sense of connexion with the interior of the fortress-monastery … |
| 6 | Werewolf and I were numbers three and four in the queue and the Sergeant had to tap his watch a couple of times as Werewolf seemed to be requiring more help than the rest of us from Private Boyd in getting his belt on . |
| 7 | Werewolf seemed to be conducting some sort of slaughter out there . |
| 8 | They appeared in buoyant spirits , and seemed to be telling each other jokes . |
| 9 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 10 | Well they , they seemed to be putting some finance in , but er it went through a bit of a flat spot and then the sold out I , I 'm sorry I 'm stuttering and all this but I have n't done my research you know and it , it 's , it 's tough going . |
| 11 | No one seemed to be paying much attention to the backgrounds . |
| 12 | The snow was driving down now but even through that whirling vortex of frozen city detritus , none of it seemed to be making any impression on those glistening black pavements or the tarmac . |
| 13 | He then brought up the £8000 to £8,000 by steering clear of the OTC , and the vicar was ecstatic that at last he seemed to be making some money . |
| 14 | He seemed to be making some impression on the person at the other end of the phone . |
| 15 | Perhaps that was why I was so angry , because it seemed to be going that way . |
| 16 | The driver seemed to be playing some kind of survival game with the girls of the Navimore School : he slowed down out of courtesy to the bus stop sign , but took it no further than that . |
| 17 | His eyes glinted through the black lashes and for a moment he seemed to be offering some sort of olive branch . |
| 18 | Her mother seemed to be coping this time , and they sincerely hoped she would n't go back , but she did . |
| 19 | Back in the auction ring the recession in farming seemed to be having little effect and prices were similar to last year , with one bull making nearly £3,000 . |
| 20 | He seemed to be having some kind of fit . |
| 21 | I 'm sure have it , as time 's getting on the they seemed to be introducing more health things in I think that now that , tobacco er vegetables all the likes of that is different now what it was forty , fifty years ago |
| 22 | It might dilute the real body of work which I felt to be making some kind of contribution . |
| 23 | But at Banbury 's open air pool few appeared to be taking much notice . |
| 24 | By March 5 troops loyal to Saddam Hussein appeared to be achieving some success against the rebels . |
| 25 | Talks between the Russian Federation and separate delegations from all three states appeared to be making little progress . |
| 26 | At that time , as George Orwell reflected , the campaign appeared to be exerting some impact upon British politics for , ‘ In England the Popular Front is only an idea , but it has already produced the nauseous spectacle of bishops , Communists , cocoa-magnates , publishers , duchesses and Labour MPs marching arm-in-arm to the tune of ‘ Rule Brittania ’ . |
| 27 | They were quietly seething , June 1988 may not have been the right time for demonstrations , but parts of the student body and some sectors of the urban population appeared to be contemplating some form of action to let the government know of their intentions . |