Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] it be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Frye 's left calf and foot remained protruding from the bottom of the wall , shuddering slightly as it was drawn in . |
| 2 | Because the senior members on the flats that have been living here since it was put up , when they came to live on complex , they reckoned it was the place to come and live . |
| 3 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 4 | Dame Gillian Brown thanked the speakers with great enthusiasm , congratulated the Principal on ensuring the succession , and also thanked Patricia Hutchinson and Mary Keen for a successful meeting , and the University Womens ' Club ( worth joining even if it is known as Pussy Cat Hall by my irreverent 88 year old cousin , a St. Hugh 's gal ) gave us rather a good tea . |
| 5 | Gradually add the oil stirring steadily until it is amalgamated and the sauce has the consistency of a creamed butter . |
| 6 | The ground of this bizarre world rose gradually in all directions , curving overhead until it was lost above the clouds . |
| 7 | Weir got out of commodity , or off-the-shelf , engineering goods , which it had been making almost since it was founded by the family in 1871 , seeing them as too sensitive to changes to domestic demand and expensive to produce compared with international competitors . |
| 8 | A FURIOUS storm was raging yesterday after it was revealed that the South 's semi-State mobile phone network is being used to peddle vice . |