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Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He 's said to be recovering well from an eyelid operation and reconstructive surgery on his nose .
2	He 's said to be recovering well from an eyelid operation and reconstructive surgery on his nose .
3	Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side .
4	It need only be a few seconds of me singin' or something but you 'd be gettin' straight to a certain type of literate , intelligent audience .
5	Going back there would be walking straight into a trap .
6	You seem to be looking outside for a solution .
7	Children with right-sided field loss will be looking ahead into a space ; left-sided hemianopia causes difficulties in finding the beginning of a line of print .
8	While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning .
9	However , if Microsoft can neither be bothered to put the basic information in its literature , nor inform the people handling the upgrade , should I be looking elsewhere for an alternative ?
10	certainly I think er we 'd be looking perhaps for a minimum of er er of one mile but I ca n't advise you on any level of agreement as to as to what any definition of it .
11	One with all the attributes of a jet-setter , considering the sort of life he must have led before the accident that had put him out of motor racing , yet he seemed to be living here like a monk .
12	We will be living together in a very small space .
13	The American claims to be acting purely as a private citizen but clearly his fact-finding mission has some clout if both Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew agreed to speak to him .
14	One thing , however , would certainly be damaging politically to a Home Secretary : stubbornness as evidence mounts that a great injustice may have been done .
15	In short , the nation seemed to be heading inexorably towards an impasse .
16	Both the increased cost and the loss in predictive validity will most hurt the poor and disadvantaged , who will be paying more for a test that is less likely to spot unfulfilled native abilities .
17	He said hastily , ‘ I 'll be going away for a bit and I guess I 'll be ravenous when I get back .
18	I sha n't be going anywhere for a while .
19	‘ He wo n't be going anywhere in a hurry . ’
20	The little Japanese , Otaki , had holed his tee shot and would be going home in a Bentley Mulsanne .
21	It 's important that we do n't lose but we wo n't be going there for a draw . ’
22	At the end of the day it 's a political decision from the council of ministers , but it seems to be going there with a firm endorsement of support from the commission . ’
23	‘ They will have their tails up and I do n't think we could be going there at a harder time .
24	Although the haze had restricted visibility forward Spencer recalls that he could see down quite well and everything seemed to be going smoothly for a controlled emergency landing .
25	It 'd be nice to be waiting here for a train and then getting on it and going somewhere nice .
26	‘ No , I 'll be staying here for a while , sharing the caravan with Boz and Alamena . ’
27	You could soon be flying away for an exciting holiday in Reims , the heart of Champagne country — all it takes is three questions and a little imaginative sparkle !
28	He added that he would be speaking only as an individual and not as a representative of the Chief Police Officers Association .
29	‘ We shall be getting together in a team meeting so that we can get people 's heads up .
30	By calculating which gods would be marching together on a given day , the priests could determine the combined influence of all marchers and thus forecast the fate of mankind .