Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One lawyer in particular — an African woman — had been hanging around almost every day . |
| 2 | Stapleton has been knocking out roughly an album a year and , about three years ago , released ‘ Psilotripitaka ’ , a boxed set of the first three NWW albums . |
| 3 | The Americans have invaded , and are rounding up both the rebels and governmental forces . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he said , ‘ you 're reacting in just the way she wants ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ A somewhat sadistic variation on Warner Baxter 's famous speech to Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street : ‘ You 're going out there a youngster , but you 've got to come back a star . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're putting on quite a good display for someone who can hold her drink , ’ she heard him say sarcastically from the doorway . |
| 7 | You 've told me that you 're putting in about a hundred million pounds for this initial expansion , is that the limit ? |
| 8 | However , there are countervailing pressures since , at the same time , broader educational needs are pulling in exactly the opposite direction and require teachers to operate in the extended dimension in many ways . |
| 9 | ‘ Different sizes , one heavier than the other , and yet they are going round exactly the same path in the same time . |
| 10 | He thinks of that great opening shot in Le Métro and he realizes that her lips are moving in exactly the same way , her face pained as he does his practised best . |
| 11 | Evidence of my identity — why I , presumably an Englishman , since my relative is , should independently choose to visit Vienna at the same time — a time , incidentally , when most people with any sense are travelling in precisely the opposite direction … |
| 12 | If someone a obviously it 's it 's what I 'm asking is hypothetical anyway because I mean the flats are coming down so no one new can move in , but say you actually if if it was possible for other people to move into these flats and you knew someone and they said erm , You know I 'm thinking of moving into Green flats , what would you say ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm building up quite a collection , are n't I ? |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll be movin' in fast an ’ hard once Brett an' Pete take out their Control . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going through quite a quiet patch lately , ’ he said , having drained his third glass of claret . |
| 16 | The standard of accuracy expected is something that sadly seems to be lacking in quite a few civilian counterparts , as is the expectation that the pilot devour every bit of information related to his chosen profession . |
| 17 | as I was climbing the hill I thought , Oh gosh , this trolley seems to be coming up here no problem . |
| 18 | ‘ Bill Clinton looks like he will be taking on quite a responsibility . |
| 19 | Unlike Wang , which has effectively withdrawn from systems manufacturing and is little more than a reseller for the IBM line , Bull will be taking up both the manufacturing and design rights it negotiated with IBM back in February ( UX No 370 ) . |
| 20 | On the other hand , massed fire from several cannons can be devastating on even the largest enemy units . |
| 21 | Actually , I have been slipping in quite a large amount of social anthropological theory while appearing to be discussing other things , though , at the grand scale level , I still have to justify my claim that a mechanical model of functionalist integration is to be preferred to an organic model . |
| 22 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 23 | Very hectic at the moment it 's should 've normally been dropping off quite a lot this time but |
| 24 | Got to the other end and I think we were unloading in about an hour and a half or so . |
| 25 | When baking a cake , manufacturers of cake-mixes were told , women were acting out symbolically the birth of a child ( not for nothing was the vulgar phrase for pregnancy a ‘ bun in the oven ’ ) . |
| 26 | Initially , the children were waking up almost every night of the week , and about three or four times a night . |
| 27 | Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart . |
| 28 | We were going down there every day if possible , or every other day at least . |
| 29 | By this time my mother and me were getting on just a little bit better . |
| 30 | Our results suggest that our subjects were thinking in precisely the opposite way ( at least on their second repetition ) . |