Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [indef pn] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 He wanted to be where something was happening .
2 If the world was a bathtub , the progress of the Ship through it would be like the soap , shooting backwards and forwards and never being where anyone was expecting it to be .
3 You 're concentration goes it 's like er it 's like someone 's going to try and head it in to the net and he 's trying to work out which corner it 's going into and he 's
4 A story is when someone 's trying to do something , and someone 's trying to stop him .
5 That 's why everyone 's laughing then !
6 More and more money has been spent on the police , and it has n't worked , and that 's why everybody 's looking round for new initiatives , that 's why Patrick Sheehy who after all is chairman of a very successful commercial corporation , was asked by your government to put forward recommendations , that a lot of very unsuccessful police forces rejected out of hand .
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