Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These deals have slowly been finding out that they just ca n't get financing , ’ said William Lefebvre , a market analyst with New York 's Advest group . |
| 2 | Han Chinese have since been pouring in , lured by promises of jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities . |
| 3 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 4 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 5 | A BR spokesman pointed out that their car clamping company had only been carrying out their duty . |
| 6 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 7 | When I came back to the world of RAM and ROM , my subconscious had apparently been connecting up some loose neurons , and everything fell into place . |
| 8 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 9 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 10 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 11 | He had obviously been sleeping out the daylight in the gloom of the kirk , never expecting that some idiot with a camera , rucksack and heavy boots would come crashing into his bedroom . |
| 12 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 13 | We 'd better be getting along . " |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd better be getting back . |
| 15 | It was Amy who said : ‘ Look , I 'd better be getting back . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better be getting back . |
| 17 | Then in the morning he thought he 'd better be getting back home so he started home and when he got home he discovered it was the harvest time . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd better be getting back or the foreman will be giving me the sack . ’ |
| 19 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 20 | they 'll obviously be moving about and tutors ca n't be faffing round every two minutes if something goes wrong . |
| 21 | Just to say that we do monitor the numbers going into , to residential care very very closely so we would we would be able to tell sort of reasonably early in the year if things were going erm way of our projections of our predictions and er we would obviously be coming back to you to see to er to change our budgets erm if , if that proved necessary . |
| 22 | if he 's going to come out , they 'll be coming out , well it 's Thursday today , yeah , so be coming out Friday , yeah ? |
| 23 | That is , everyone in an organization should constantly be thinking through what information he or she needs to do the job and to make a contribution . |
| 24 | Nothing serious today , you should only be flying up your own arse ! |
| 25 | ‘ We 'd only be storing up grief for ourselves . ’ |
| 26 | This could only be leading up to one thing : when are you going to marry my daughter ? |
| 27 | The raising of a mentally handicapped child is a long and hard road , but then many would say so is bringing up any child . |
| 28 | But if the telephone in our century has made adultery both simpler and harder ( assignations are easier , but so is checking up ) , the railway in the last century had a similar effect . |
| 29 | Something inside that empty bottle that I had ignored for so long was hitting back . |
| 30 | So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club . |