Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President , I 'd like to er , offer thanks on behalf of my membership in the Process and Construction Section , on the false agreement , it was a very successful week and just to echo Keith 's words , those links that we made are working and we are in correspondence with the , our colleagues in and we 're picking that up in terms of recruitment . |
| 2 | Laura reckons , ’ she continued , a salacious gleam in her toffee-brown eyes , ‘ old Po-face-that 's what they all calls him cos he never smiles-had been having it off with that secretary for weeks . |
| 3 | Those I mentioned are taking place currently at Sussex , yes . |
| 4 | Fresh tests on milk samples released last night showed 70 per cent of 238 dairy farms analysed were producing milk with lead levels above the Department of Health 's recommended safety limit , although 72 farms were within the limit of less than 0.05 milligrams of lead per litre . |
| 5 | Because the women he raped and assaulted were trusting enough to accept one glass of wine from him ? |
| 6 | Drivers from the taxi firm WTN used were arriving all the time with equipment , food and people . |
| 7 | Although we did n't realize it , the books we used were becoming a tie between us , and the hours we spent together were becoming more and more enjoyable . |
| 8 | Baltic opinion , in particular , objected that the changes proposed were centralising in character and that the republics ' ( admittedly nominal ) right of secession had been prejudiced . |
| 9 | A survey by Roberts and Bull of postgraduate library students ' first posts showed that book selection and acquisition was a prominent duty for many of them ; the first four duties reported were cataloguing and classification ( 94% of the sample of students ) , reference and readers ' advisory work ( 76% ) , selection and acquisition ( 67% ) and management ( 38% ) . |
| 10 | He added that two of the Mayo family which his team found were wearing ‘ bendy boots ’ and there was only one ice axe between them , even though they had strayed on to a climbing route . |
| 11 | Saw three fellows at the end of Royce Wood , who I found were laying out the plan for an iron rail way from Manchester to London . |
| 12 | There is a record of a severe lecture he delivered to Capuchin monks in Prague whom he found were living far more expansively than his own abstemious style would permit . |
| 13 | In spite of all her problems Rose was keeping to schedule . |
| 14 | At the County Ground this morning John Gorman took over the crown as Swindon Town manager … down in London at Stamford Bridge Glenn Hoddle … the man whod abdicated was taking charge of his new kingdom Chelsea … |
| 15 | As it happened , the bombs the young officer involved was carrying went off prematurely . ’ |
| 16 | Nigel resented the attention that each and every author he reviewed was getting . |
| 17 | With the ribbon of blacktop offering a new perspective , he realised that the vortex within which they fled was turning away from the mountains . |
| 18 | The basic problem he encountered was getting across why his own complete immaterialism was not itself more overtly and explicitly sceptical than the standard view that there exist both material bodies and incorporeal minds or spirits . |
| 19 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 20 | He 'd been annoying the Dasses . |
| 21 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 22 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |
| 23 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 24 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 25 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 26 | Cos Ange said she 'd , she 'd been chatting about Jenny to her . |
| 27 | sending their mail to erm Body Shop er , they 'd been grooming their nails because they 've heard that the Body shops , in the paper the other day erm are paying ten pounds per nail if your nail 's an inch long , you know , so you cut this talon off if it 's an inch long and they had loads and loads of them sent in envelopes or people just ringing up and asking can we send our nail , ten pound a nail and they said , where the rumour started from these people had heard that because they do n't do erm experiments on animals any more they 're using nails to do experiments , the nail polish and that |
| 28 | I 'm glad you do n't try to be what you are n't , ’ he said gravely , beckoning the waiter who 'd been leaning wearily against the door-jamb . |
| 29 | Now he was on his third circuit of the Bay : he 'd been ducking under bulldozers for almost an hour . |
| 30 | He 'd been beginning to think no one could any more . |