Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 2 | But to the extent that rationality continues to prevail , we have long since been submitting all codes to ‘ Be aware ’ , without noticing that this imperative is creative of values as well as destructive . |
| 3 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 4 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 5 | But at this moment some six hundred land girls in Sussex alone are attacking this job against all the ’ . |
| 6 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 7 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 8 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 9 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 10 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 11 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 12 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 13 | ‘ We have not been running this campaign as an entertainment for our dear friends in the press and broadcasting media . |
| 14 | ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’ |
| 15 | In the 1940s an interest in genetic studies came to the fore , although several German investigators had already been following this line for some years . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
| 17 | And we have just been noticing that Brentano , like the British empiricist , John Locke , thinks of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on , as things — Locke called them ‘ operations ’ , Brentano called them ‘ phenomena ’ — as things we perceive in ourselves . |
| 18 | All right I 've just been making some notes here . |
| 19 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 20 | ‘ The way you and he have just been pawing each other about just has to mean that , in your own sweet way , ’ he inserted thunderously , ‘ you 've been endorsing the fact that your affair with him is over ! ’ |
| 21 | The wolf crawled along on a stomach , that would soon be digesting some meat |
| 22 | Could n't Mr Hall just be having some kind of bad day ? |
| 23 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 24 | If you use the art lesson to check school meal monies , or mark your books , and leave the children to get on , you will not be teaching this subject well ; and the children will suffer and so will their work . |
| 25 | You will not be consuming any grains , dairy products , yeast , or alcohol this week . |
| 26 | You would not be reading this book now if we had to rely on " refills " for student notebooks . |
| 27 | At the end of the prosecution case at Teesside Crown Court yesterday , James Chadwin QC , defending , said he would not be calling any evidence . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'd better not be using any metal in what you 're making , ’ said Mr Walpit . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'd better not be using any wood in what you 're making , , said Mr Welt . |
| 30 | They may not be using these terms but , for the first time , a career counsellor can obtain reliable data from interviews or questionnaires which detect goal priorities and motivation profiles . |