Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 32 | I think the main part will be alright cos you 'll be travelling down the A thirty four which is erm |
| 33 | I reckon those people 'll be going up the wrong way . |
| 34 | I suppose me Dan and Honey 'll be going back the cheap way . |
| 35 | Alex I 'll be going down the field at lunch . |
| 36 | Lynne plans to marry her fiancee Martin Keene next year — she says she 's determined she 'll be walking down the aisle . |
| 37 | ‘ Well , I get some expenses ; I 'll be making up the difference . ’ |
| 38 | We 'll be making up the lost hours tonight and on Monday . |
| 39 | ‘ If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the revolution . |
| 40 | I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution . |
| 41 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
| 42 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 43 | yo you know if we had problems we 'd each talk to them and we had of course , we had , we formed a resident association and we took our problems to the resident 's association and and we wo , you know , if we had problems which could be ironed out the man , general manager of the development corporation , Mr would come and listen to our complaints and we seemed , you know , we we got along very very well really for such a small place with nothing because the only shopping facilities were in the old town or we had to go to Epping or Bishop 's Stortford you see ? |
| 44 | Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges . |
| 45 | You could be passing up the chance to obtain the most loving , loyal friend anyone could wish for . |
| 46 | Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 47 | Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 48 | It 's obviously never occurred to her she could be barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 49 | In turn , similar financial disciplines and targets could be set down the line , ‘ rewarding and punishing individual operations according to risk performance ’ . |
| 50 | They asked the individual chief officers to prepare reports to the committees on action that could be taken on the detailed recommendations of Friends of the Earth . |
| 51 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 52 | Still more damning evidence could be brought about the long-term effect of punches to the head . |
| 53 | He said you 'd ne , I used to say to you get on with your work he said and you 'd have a pencil in your mouth he said and you 'd be gazing out the window . |
| 54 | Then a green light would stab through the gloom and he 'd be roaring down the narrow concrete strip , faster and faster , holding Sugar back until it seemed the boundary fence was hurtling to meet them . |
| 55 | There are days when I sit down and my mind goes back to prison , when I 'd be looking out the window , thinking , I wish I was out there , you know , doing something . |
| 56 | ‘ The agent was forever calling him , wanting to know if , this time , you 'd be taking up the ticket . |
| 57 | Super Channel wanted to run it but were told by the I.T.C. they 'd be pulled off the air if they did . |
| 58 | you know , they 'd be put on the other register . |
| 59 | If the choice was mine , I 'd be sounding out the likes of Larry Laoretti , shock winner of the U.S. Seniors Open six months ago . |
| 60 | Waco : CULT leader David Koresh may be drawing out the 34-day stand-off with federal agents so it ends on a religious holiday and fulfils his prophecies , the FBI said . |