Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , he believes that many of our ingenious musicians still have their aural-receptors pointed outwards and are merely trying to slavishly mimic what comes from England on the U.S. |
2 | She opened them to find that the priest had come in and was blandly regarding her and her father . |
3 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
4 | The Confederation of British Industry has come round and is now talking about 40 per cent . |
5 | Lucy knew it because whenever she started to talk about Christine , she 'd realise after a couple of minutes that they 'd moved on and were now talking about something else . |
6 | But by the ninth century this had degenerated into gross confusion , under cover of which the worship of Baal-Melqart , the official god of Tyre , had crept in and was widely corrupting faith in God . |
7 | Three had their convictions quashed by the Appeal Court earlier this year — the fourth had his appeal turned down and is still serving a life sentence . |
8 | By eluting self-peptides from HLA-B53 we identified a sequence motif for bound peptides and have synthesized 60 octamer , nonamer or decamer peptides bearing this motif from the four pre-erythrocytic-stage P. falciparum antigens that have been cloned and sequenced : each of these antigens has been used in or is currently awaiting human vaccine trials . |
9 | Environmental health officers have been called in and are now treating the problem . |
10 | Environmental health officers have been called in and are now treating the problem . |
11 | Environmental health officers have been called in and are now treating the problem . |
12 | Jinkwa had wheeled about and was now coming back over to them . |
13 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
14 | Frankie had left home and was now living in lodgings in a little backstreet near the pub they were sitting in . |