Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 2 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 3 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 4 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 6 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 7 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 8 | Peterborough are jogging along in midtable while United are slipping down … |
| 9 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 10 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 11 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 13 | Thames valley police are cracking down on bad driving . |
| 14 | Some are rowing about in spindly black rowing-boats in the graceful standing posture that is the classic Venetian stance , while others are darting around in speedboats . |
| 15 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 16 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 17 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 18 | are walking round with flared trousers and things ! |
| 19 | It seems as if the top 10 firms are walking off with all the prizes these days — literally . |
| 20 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 21 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 22 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 23 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 24 | The fact that community nurses all over the country are tearing around between 7.30 and 9.30 in the morning giving one dose of insulin after another is almost always dictated by the needs of each client to receive insulin at that time of day . |
| 25 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 26 | ALL-GIRL band L7 are teaming up with wild rockers Nirvana in a bid to promote women 's rights . |
| 27 | They are teaming up with British and American publishers for simultaneous English and German editions of the same book , or themselves issuing an increasing number of bilingual ( usually German/English ) books . |
| 28 | They pause , too , about a hundred yards from where the Masai are fanning out around one of the hills . |
| 29 | He warned the Conservatives and Labour that ‘ from the ancient bastion of liberalism , the flames are fanning out in all directions , consuming your shabby campaigns , your out-of-date policies , your visions of the future ’ . |
| 30 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |