Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean had n't long passed her driving test and I tried to help by pointing out when she should be moving up through the gears . |
| 2 | ‘ Laz , before you get your trusty Smith and Whatever platinum plated , do n't you think we should be getting down to the business , which is your business . |
| 3 | Perhaps we should be getting back to the roots of organisations like the RA and footpath preservation societies in encouraging people to wander more freely and make use of neglected local paths . |
| 4 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 5 | By right and custom , he himself and James here should be going back to the house for the reading of the will , but this very new Sir Joseph had made it evident yesterday that he wanted no reading done in the house and that he would let them know when he wanted the matter dealt with . |
| 6 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |
| 7 | He did n't know why he was saying these words ; deep down he knew that he should be running back to the truck and getting the rescue organized . |
| 8 | Part of the problem is that , because we know we should be cutting down on the amount of sugar we eat , we 're turning more and more to diet drinks , which contain artificial sweeteners like saccharin . |
| 9 | An hour later , the second time zone results should be coming in from the Mid-West . |
| 10 | No , she must be working out of the Kingston office cos we do n't |
| 11 | He must be walking up to the |
| 12 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 13 | The X-ray-emitting gas is so hot that it must be rushing out of the bulge as a galactic ‘ wind ’ , unless it is somehow confined by magnetic fields . |
| 14 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 15 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |
| 16 | And that takes us to the question of what it is that might be going on behind the screen — a question which leads not only forward and to Ulysses and beyond , but backwards , into a reconsideration of Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist . |
| 17 | But yesterday , on his 91st birthday , Trafford , whose wife died in sheltered accommodation four years ago , told a community nursing conference in London that , though a Tory voter all his life who thought most of what Mrs Thatcher was doing was good , he saw a danger that old people might be heading back towards the workhouse if the Government went ahead with NHS cuts and changes in community care . |
| 18 | Should another globe-trotting adventure arise , we know what notebook computer we 'll be taking along for the ride . |
| 19 | ‘ So he 'll be popping up to the palace with the rest of them , to pick up his medals . ’ |
| 20 | Welcome back : In a few minutes , we 'll be dropping in on the pub of the year . |
| 21 | Welcome back : In a few minutes , we 'll be dropping in on the pub of the year . |
| 22 | Marry Doreen and you 'll be stepping out of the frying pan into the fire , as the saying goes . ’ |
| 23 | I 'll be catching up on the progress of our women in management . |
| 24 | She said , ‘ I wonder if Albert 'll be waving up on the line I would , if I was him . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I guess you 'll be getting back for the Soviet visit , now . ’ |
| 26 | Meantime , we 'll be getting down to the fine details . ’ |
| 27 | When he gets time off from a fairly packed schedule after The Eleventh Station he 'll be teaming up with the Muscles from Brussels , Jean Claude van Damme , in a film called Universal Soldier Dolph relaxes by playing the drums . |
| 28 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 29 | They 'll be coming out over the next year or so . |
| 30 | Good idea about 606 , I ca n't do it though I 'll be travelling back from the game ! |