Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 2 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 3 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 4 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 5 | He would n't just be sitting out in the open , would he ? |
| 6 | No cos they 'll still be popping out to the an will we not ? |
| 7 | You 'll still be working up at the farm and I 'll be having my midday meals up there , same as I do now . |
| 8 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 9 | Marilyn has worked with Douglas Reyburn for just over a year as time keeper , but because of her clerical skills will also be helping out in the office when leave is taken by others . |
| 10 | If information could be transmitted from here to a Centauri in less time than this , it would effectively be travelling back into the past . |
| 11 | If a policeman could be so well endowed with it , despite the obvious difficulties and frustrations of his profession , the ordinary man or woman would surely be brimming over with a joke or two no matter what the occasion . |
| 12 | The history specialists in the secondary school for the area may also be able to offer advice , especially as pupils from the catchment area will ultimately be going on to the secondary school . |
| 13 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 14 | I found it so interesting I will certainly be going back for a closer look . ’ |