Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So CrossWind is adopting a client/server strategy with Unix on the server and clients running the native Mac , Windows or OS/2 interface . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |
| 3 | The regional officers also wrote to the Chilean authorities calling for the prompt introduction of legislation which will give official licenses to the many community radio and TV stations that hitherto have been operating under severe restrictions . |
| 4 | Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming . |
| 5 | But that 's cold comfort to the players who for the past two months or so have been attempting to qualify for the PGA European Tour . |
| 6 | Thus Intasun is diversifying into the United Kingdom hotel market . |
| 7 | Independent British film makers from all over have been writing letters of complaint . |
| 8 | The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying . |
| 9 | Celebrities also have been voicing their opinions of the end to the ‘ fairytale romance ’ . |
| 10 | Now smoke was beginning to filter through the hole and round the edges of the door itself . |
| 11 | Now Face is bluffing here . |
| 12 | What they really like is talking about it , talking about others doing it , and feeling mighty relieved when their partner arrives home with a headache . |
| 13 | Now Fairworld is offering a reward for information which leads to the conviction of the thieves . |
| 14 | Now Oslear is wondering if the truth will ever come out — especially as ICC supremo Sir Colin Cowdrey has failed to comment on match referee Deryck Murray 's report and on the umpires ' official findings . |
| 15 | He killed Bel before the guards shot him , and now Gog is going to destroy Australia . ’ |
| 16 | Michael had originally intended to run Royal Ballerina in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp the day after the St Leger and now Kauntze is hoping for dry conditions at Doncaster for what he regards as an easier race . |
| 17 | Michael had originally intended to run Royal Ballerina in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp the day after the St Leger and now Kauntze is hoping for dry conditions at Doncaster for what he regards as an easier race . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ What I really miss is jumping into my car and popping to the shops . ’ |
| 19 | Newcastle though have been flying all season … on top of the table since September they 've lost just one of their last ten league games … some thought they were beginning to slip … five goals against Brentford last weekend proved that Kevin Keegan 's team are still the ones to beat … |
| 20 | So , did you , should you have really have been helping them ? |
| 21 | ‘ I really have been trying my best — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We have used our experience and our ability to sharpen up our image and our content and for six months now have been using full colour every week . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The two I particularly remember are building the new stand at Ascot and the construction of Central Point in London . ’ |
| 24 | The president here remember is working under his powers as commander in chief directly from the constitution and nobody questioned it . |
| 25 | In the centre of the front two Iraqi oil wells and a gas well have been burning in no-man's-land since the last days of the war . |
| 26 | More than a hundred children who survived the Chernobyl nuclear disaster seven years ago have been experiencing life in rural England . |
| 27 | The last thing I heard you say before I left the receiver to its own devices was something like ‘ Some of us here have been reading your books … ’ |
| 28 | GCSE students here have been studying the truancy problem . |
| 29 | It 's , it 's no good we going tomorrow or Howard 'll be coming turn out late shift be coming out you know , might as well get ready and going out , now I 've had summat to eat , it 's only quarter to Really we 're starting into the second leaves , the frosts through to the second set of leaves these , that 's gon na be better plant and here when the wind blows |
| 30 | In an area with around 250 cm of rain a year , it seems clear that if the hillsides are not replanted then silt is going to rush down into the river , through the sluice gates of the dam and into the new land , where irrigation canals might become seriously clogged up , and the fertility of the soil lowered . |