Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if sea and wind together were singing a lament , mourning with a not quite human voice , the voice of water echoing in a sea-cave , weird , unearthly . |
| 2 | Wood finishes that let the natural beauty of the grain show through are becoming more and more popular . |
| 3 | And let's face it , Focus Now is going to be different . ’ |
| 4 | Spunk here was trying to tame his bronco word-endings and his slippery vowels . |
| 5 | The only thing I worry about is losing the touch , losing my enjoyment for the game . |
| 6 | He learnt on a Cherokee like this , but he 's five hours short of his pilots licence so is hoping to finish his training in this country . |
| 7 | So I 'd say that Eeyore too was lying , or at least doing something just as bad . |
| 8 | One of the reasons Shine On is running at York is to give Ibn Fayoud the chance to take a table at the bail . |
| 9 | An ex-Portsmouth Polytechnic student who was told by her economics tutor that ‘ all girls who get through are going on to do shorthand and typing in the evening ’ . |
| 10 | Some people think you know really be testing er with language and mean something entirely different . |
| 11 | One thing I hate now is seeing telly programmes involving violence or mental pain . |
| 12 | Ok , we ve not been scoring too many goals , but the performances for EVERY MATCH ( barring MAYBE Norwich ) have been better than that of the opposition . |
| 13 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 14 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 15 | Less often , a company also needs more than its home market can provide ; frequently , however , firms that trade globally are seeing the merits of a global shareholder-base to match . |
| 16 | Labour too are seeking legal advice of their own and there is growing pressure for the Government to publish the advice upon which it has rested . |
| 17 | It indicated that Charles Haughey in particular , and Fianna Fáil in general were moving behind the anti-divorce lobby . |
| 18 | Carry On is carrying on with Carry On Columbus , a brash , bawdy tale very loosely connected to the explorer 's epic voyage . |
| 19 | The main characters in the books become increasingly aware of how the society they live in is destroying life as we know it now . |
| 20 | Don do n't be getting a lot out tonight cos you 've got Julie coming . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't be messing me about , ’ Denis warned as harshly as he could . |
| 22 | Do n't be writing to me either . |
| 23 | Do n't be picking me up . |
| 24 | I 'll do your arm , but do n't be complainin' if it fockin' well hurts . |
| 25 | Jennie did not realize the purpose of the mirrors and would shout , ‘ Do n't be looking at yerself , do n't be admiring yerself in the mirror . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't be looking so worried . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't be makin' fon now ! |
| 28 | ‘ Now do n't be pretendin' you do n't know who he is ! |
| 29 | Since they 've had the marts , they do n't be keeping the pig days and sheep days no more . |
| 30 | ‘ But do n't be weaving fantasies about me , Ellie , about what I might or might not be , will you ? |