Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we did at the beginning , cos he said apologizing for being in that position |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been painting about being in love with Mary for the past thirty years . |
| 3 | Other crustal fragments , while appearing to be of more local origin , have , none the less , experienced significant horizontal displacement and rotation with respect to the plate of which they form a part . |
| 4 | It is hard to know how to comport yourself on such an occasion , the choice appearing to be between solemnity and frivolousness , with nothing in between . |
| 5 | With violence appearing to be on the wane at the moment , he may well be right that the future looks bright . |
| 6 | a sick child ( preferably appearing to be from the past , ie. black and white photo/line drawing ) |
| 7 | The man police are looking for is in his 20s , of Afro Carribean appearance and powerfully built . |
| 8 | Barbara Coleman was making incoherent accusations , Merlyn was shouting about the state of the woman 's mind , Joseph was swearing about being in terrible pain . |
| 9 | and I know la well some time when retirement was looking on the on the horizon I was saying to him you 're not alone but , you know , you 've got ta be looking towards being on your own because of course |
| 10 | Nothing particularly wrong with that but that does show where they are coming from when they are looking into being with as I call it the so called traffic problems of St Albans . |
| 11 | Instead , we are reminded that for every shining ‘ Eight Miles High ’ or raving ‘ Psychotic Reaction ’ , there were 20 million twee twats wheedling through wank called ‘ Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal ’ , and an infinity of squeaky-voiced college boys pretending to be on acid and singing garbage called ‘ Ego Trip ’ . |
| 12 | Pretending to be on a stroll , she hiked up to the car park . |
| 13 | Then he 'll see there 's no point fooling around and pretending to be in love with me . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you know how people like to be together , even if they 're pretending to be in the wild , so I was thinking of groupings of four to six cabins per lot . ’ |
| 15 | I found myself formalizing my speech , as if I too was pretending to be in a drawing-room of forty years before . |
| 16 | When she went back he was asleep or pretending to be in his own bed . |
| 17 | ‘ I have n't been pretending to be in love with you this weekend . |
| 18 | At the same time there is a conflict between wanting to be on the nest and away from the nest . |
| 19 | There 's also a sub-plot about Gloria , one of the guy 's girlfriends , wanting to be on a TV game show . |
| 20 | ‘ Let's face it , every man has the dilemma of wanting to be with someone and yet wanting to be on his own . |
| 21 | But with Virgin , he complained , the laid-back Sixties seediness and everybody wanting to be on first-name terms , all seemed like a ploy to lull an honest Situationist into a false sense of security . |
| 22 | Those people who do transgress social and sexual boundaries in loving fat women may punish their fat lover with ambivalence ( for example , by wanting to be with them privately but not in public ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Let's face it , every man has the dilemma of wanting to be with someone and yet wanting to be on his own . |
| 24 | You know come down and touch , they were always wanting to be with your horses . |
| 25 | But her acknowledgement of her feelings for him was still new , and even while wanting to be with him she felt nervous , terrified that by some small look or too-ready smile she might give away her feelings — that she did n't want to say that goodbye — and that to do so would break her heart . |
| 26 | So did the Famlio thugs , after Pulvidon he snarled at them , not wanting to be out doing . |
| 27 | The studios are good for those wanting to be near the town but in a quiet spot . |
| 28 | It 's all about players wanting to be in charge of their own destiny . ’ |
| 29 | In primary sclerosing cholangitis standard liver function tests may improve after diagnosis — a result of diagnosis tending to be at times of maximal abnormality in a fluctuating course and likely therefore to be followed by a period of partial remission . |
| 30 | In Bradshaw and Holmes ' study of two-parent , two-child households on benefit , about three-quarters of the women and men lacked more than two items of basic clothing , with women 's clothing tending to be in the worst condition and children 's in the best ( Bradshaw and Holmes , 1989 ) . |