Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] be [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It indicated that Charles Haughey in particular , and Fianna Fáil in general were moving behind the anti-divorce lobby . |
| 2 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
| 3 | Hopefully we can go all the way to Wembley , but we 've all been saying in the dressing room that there are some big league games coming up and we have to concentrate on them . ’ |
| 4 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 5 | like I 've just said , I 've just been speaking for a whole lesson , my voice is just I 've got to talk to you to explain what we 're doing , so let's quietly |
| 6 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
| 7 | Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen . |
| 8 | ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news . |
| 9 | worked up the ladder , but , what 's required in a judge , I would say , put putting for the moment , what we 've just been discussing on the side , that is , any question of bias , or sex bias , a judge is there in court , to perform an intellectual . |
| 10 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 11 | Er who 've just been walking along the road . |
| 12 | But I 've just been talking to the head there and he said you know that you know the tor tutorial programme , Mrs started it all erm |
| 13 | You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've also been listening to a lot of Glenn Branca recently . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't believe it 's such a coincidence , that I 've actually been staying in the house of the person I came to look for ! |
| 16 | ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact . |
| 17 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |
| 18 | Up to this point the children have all been acting as the giant . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope you have all been practising during the holiday , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , as the girls all lined up with their brooms hovering next to them and the cats perched on the back — that is to say , most of the cats were perched on the back . |
| 20 | Guest houses , inns , farmhouses and B&Bs have all been improving in the same way as the rest of the industry , so that the best of them compare in their own category with say , AA red star hotels . |
| 21 | Footnote : NSS readers have apparently been enquiring about the welfare of my cat , Euclid , who , as I reported last week , went missing after the earthquake . |
| 22 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 23 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 24 | The intelligent amongst us have already been looking at the questions on page forty seven and realizing that despite the weirdness of the sound of this music there are some quite direct things that can be asked . |
| 25 | It slapped a ‘ for sale ’ sign on both flagships some months ago but buyers have not been queuing at the door . |
| 26 | Auditors are normally concerned with ensuring that the accounts of a firm are an accurate record of its financial position and that employers or directors have not been absconding with the funds or ‘ fiddling the books ’ . |
| 27 | Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received . |
| 28 | We in the PAC have not been fighting for the crumbs from the master 's table . ’ |
| 29 | And so if you have not been concentrating on the question |
| 30 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |