Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 61 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 62 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 63 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 64 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 65 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 66 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 67 | And let's face it , Focus Now is going to be different . ’ |
| 68 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 69 | But it says tomorrow 's going to be fine . |
| 70 | Whichever strategy is adopted there are going to be problems and it is important to be tuned into them when trying to interpret research in psychobiology . |
| 71 | They 'd origionaly been staying at the hotel Mediteran , but then moved to a villa . |
| 72 | This one just flung the door open and she 'd either been standing behind it when I knocked or , more likely , she 'd seen me coming . |
| 73 | Jay , however , is less forthcoming when it comes to defining exactly what it is he and his colleagues at Talkin' Loud are looking for . |
| 74 | With adults I tend to assume there are going to be layers or stages in the case which a repeated LM will uncover . |
| 75 | " Unless it rains , I do n't believe there are going to be any animals left in the low veld by September " , he said . |
| 76 | Mrs Falconer , a senior lecturer in textiles , has been told there is funding for only one textile lecturer in the school , but that she could remain on the staff if she accepted demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 77 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 78 | ‘ It 's always going to be like that here and anyone who thinks differently is living in cloud cuckoo land . ’ |
| 79 | The Judge held the air of someone very world-weary , and this was accurate to some extent , as he had just re-read the case notes , and sensed today was going to be another long day . |
| 80 | The majority of our assignment I would think now are getting to the resale position . |
| 81 | At almost a year old , Piment would have already been experimenting with solid food for a few months , though probably more in play than serious eating . |
| 82 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 83 | We must have both been thinking of Charlie , because he added kindly , ‘ Or a friend ? ’ |
| 84 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 85 | ‘ This is an ideal situation for us , ’ says Gaynor , ‘ having both been working with other companies mainly as dancers having a home setting for us to be creative in our own right . ’ |
| 86 | ‘ So what I 've been doing today is working on the low B strings in conjunction with our latest invention , which is a device that uses a load cell to monitor the tension of the wrap wire as it 's going on the string . |
| 87 | What Bukharin was doing here was pointing to the unity , as well as the contradiction , within the commodity-socialist economy — as Preobrazhensky called it . |
| 88 | You know like for example if I said come on chaps thank you , erm what you 're actually doing then is confessing to me that you have n't finish off Chapter ten questions . |
| 89 | You could drink now be driving for hours . |
| 90 | In November 1985 , when he had heard there was going to be another Israeli shipment to Iran , he called North . |