Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 2 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 3 | He had obviously been sleeping out the daylight in the gloom of the kirk , never expecting that some idiot with a camera , rucksack and heavy boots would come crashing into his bedroom . |
| 4 | Unfortunately their ideas have not been tested out a great deal in other areas of London or the rest of the country , so we can not be at all sure whether the findings they claim are appropriate for application to the whole of our society are in fact so . |
| 5 | mm just been to pick up a chap you see for the dance , you know across the |
| 6 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 7 | just been finished off the rigs . |
| 8 | ‘ Just been clearing up a bit . ’ |
| 9 | Horse owners meanwhile are setting up a new ’ Horse Watch ’ scheme . |
| 10 | He will soon be counting down the minutes . |
| 11 | Amateur golfers will soon be handing in a new kind of card — a ‘ flexible friend ’ , writes Bill Meredith . |
| 12 | I can see that you 'll soon be picking up the reins . |
| 13 | It remains to be seen whether either can bounce back , and whether Saatchi and Saatchi will soon be fighting off a rather more vigorous takeover bid than Mrs Thatcher faced this week . |
| 14 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |
| 15 | If his excuse is that he will not be saying anything new , I hope that the newspapers will note that he will just be churning out the same old stuff yet again . |
| 16 | I was wondering if he might not be asked out a bit more . |
| 17 | Peter Jackson , Conservative group leader , said Middlesbrough poll tax payers should not be baling out the church . |
| 18 | Genes for failure to enslave foster-parents can not be passed down the generations of cuckoos . |
| 19 | Roles however , can not be passed down the user tree like privileges since they are designed to allow users to be identified by the set of roles that they possess . |
| 20 | Naturally , it must not be put on a square which is on the same row or file or diagonal as another piece . |
| 21 | This should not be put on a back burner . |
| 22 | However , despite contact with patients between one and three times per week , the unmet needs in groups C and D suggest that certain community nurses either may not be carrying out the assessment tasks effectively or may not be reassessing clients adequately . |
| 23 | Genes for failure to resist enslavement by cuckoos can easily be passed down the generations of robins or dunnocks . |
| 24 | The site was sold to Vickers for £300,000 in 1946 and thus was brought about the end of a motor racing legend . |
| 25 | Thus was ushered in the era of management in the development game . |
| 26 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 27 | There was no response , which meant that he might still be sleeping off a particularly heavy lunchtime session or perhaps was in the bath and could n't be bothered to get out . |
| 28 | Surveys have shown that Britain has lost around 100,000 miles of hedges since 1945 and that about 4,000 miles are still being dug up every year . |
| 29 | What follows thereafter is building up the knowledge and experience of all those things that will enable us to identify , plan and implement improvements to our business . |
| 30 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |