Example sentences of "being [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , and then I went on to Rome to look at a Goldoni production and I had to see the Pope , but I tell you — I hope you 're not Catholic — the sight of the old pullet being cheered up the aisle of St. Peter 's … |
| 2 | Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse . |
| 3 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 4 | It was not a weapon which was capable of being carried on a belt or in a sash . |
| 5 | I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men . |
| 6 | By nineteen ninety-one sixty-one per cent was being carried on the roads with just seven per cent going by rail — part of the continuing trend of freight away from rail to road . |
| 7 | Ebenezer was dimly aware that he was being carried up the narrow staircase . |
| 8 | I watched Tafari 's son , Asfa Wossen , being carried up the Legation steps in a red cradle hung round the neck of his servant , while a large escort of armed retainers dispersed down the drive . |
| 9 | Judging the proper flare height demands practice , the tendency being to pull back a bit too high and try to land in an excessive nose-up attitude . |
| 10 | Being let down an Italian well , by a crowd of villagers . |
| 11 | Trow Gill is dry , a grass slope rising and narrowing to a breach in the cliffs at the top , a passage through it being made up a tumble of boulders . |
| 12 | Intentionality is usually overlooked by causal theorists who tend to see their job as being to sort out the afferent limb . |
| 13 | Harry Agg , the old man who had helped on the farm for very many years , was still employed there , but he did little more than potter , his main duties being to clean out the stables and cowshed . |
| 14 | ‘ The matter has not been discussed formally by our general committee but our fixtures committee has talked about the possible advantages of the Five Nations championship being moved back a bit . ’ |
| 15 | Another squint through the net curtains showed Cunningham being pushed up a ramp in the direction of the reception area . |
| 16 | As I look out of my window — the scene is as interesting to me as a Canaletto — I see the clouds suddenly begin to rise o at high speed , like a milkshake being drawn up a straw , the top layers , the fluffy stuff , going last . |
| 17 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 18 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 19 | agree to it being handed in the next day as opposed to the next lesson ? |
| 20 | A ballast variant is defined by W.G.E. Watson as " simply a filler , its function being to fill out a line of poetry that would otherwise be too short " . |
| 21 | It was like the sound of fingernails being dragged down a blackboard . |
| 22 | Lee was being dragged down the bank . |
| 23 | Her despair at this belated realisation had rendered her only half aware of being dragged down the gallery stairs and across a hall humming with surprised murmurs . |
| 24 | I was appalled to note in Peter Jones 's report today of the Scottish Labour conference that in opposing the proposal to give the Scottish party greater autonomy the North Aberdeen MP , Bob Hughes , could warn delegates against the danger of ‘ being dragged down the back alleys of silly little constitutional issues ’ . |
| 25 | They spent the rest of the morning checking over their equipment before being herded up a gangplank and on to the waiting troop carrier . |
| 26 | The Economics Minister , Juergen Moelleman , has called for Western states to provide urgent aid to make ex-Soviet plants safe , with the priority being to shut down the RBMKs . |
| 27 | ‘ I was only young at the time , but I can still recall the funeral , and the flat cart with his coffin being pulled up the field by his horse . |
| 28 | Then she felt the coverlet being pulled off the bed and João was on top of her and his sweet breath was in her face and his mouth over her mouth ; he was forcing her legs apart until she thought she would split ; he was trying to lift them right up over his shoulders , and at the same time trying to enter where she was impossibly small , cursing at his lack of success and finally grunting and gasping , until she felt a little damp fountain on her belly and he rolled off the bed and pattered quickly from the room . |
| 29 | Now new presssure is being brought on the government . |
| 30 | At the time of going to press more than 150 fragments of classical statues had been recovered and more finds were being brought up every day . |