Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 2 | They have , they will be drawing back on most things . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that winter will soon be drawing in , many of you will , no doubt , be taking the opportunity for a late holiday in the sun and looking for suitably cool tops to pack in your suitcases . |
| 4 | Waco : CULT leader David Koresh may be drawing out the 34-day stand-off with federal agents so it ends on a religious holiday and fulfils his prophecies , the FBI said . |
| 5 | ‘ The stalwarts will be queueing up for their jog round the deck . ’ |
| 6 | The voucher holders , who also hold a gold card , will be queueing up at Roker Park for their tickets throughout this week . |
| 7 | Both Richard and Rob seem to be jogging along quite nicely . |
| 8 | Marilyn has worked with Douglas Reyburn for just over a year as time keeper , but because of her clerical skills will also be helping out in the office when leave is taken by others . |
| 9 | Jessica and James Kernan are hoping to keep up with international successes and will be competing in tomorrow 's Grand Prix . |
| 10 | A number of Ulster riders will be competing in today 's opening round of the Supercup series at Oulton Park . |
| 11 | Your supposed to be sticking up for me love ! |
| 12 | I 'm afraid it would have to be sticking out . |
| 13 | Something would be sticking out would hit on something so when the wood , your feet in the shoe , that would make a hole in the , in the front . |
| 14 | If your weight remains constant you must be using up all your calories , but if you are gaining weight then some of the calories you consume are being stored as fat . |
| 15 | During that ten second or less dash for the line they will actually be using up oxygen faster than their bodies can take it in . |
| 16 | So quite large areas of your spreadsheet could be using up memory unnecessarily . |
| 17 | was tut-tutting that we should n't be using out of er Stansted airport , they should be jets |
| 18 | Mr Pienaar 's spokesman said : ‘ The Administrator-General is very disturbed that with the evidence at our disposal we realise that a situation could be building up which could lead to the ultimate defeat of the aims and objectives of Resolution 435 . ’ |
| 19 | Or they may just be building up their forces to start another attack . |
| 20 | The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future . |
| 21 | But you will be building up a useful nest egg and wo n't have to pay either capital gains or income tax on the money you get back . |
| 22 | We do know however that , with perseverance , every day can produce some success and that , by continuing to work one day at a time , we will be building up a very solid basis for renewed confidence and further achievement . |
| 23 | The stimulus to demand would be felt during a period of expansion and so would exacerbate any inflationary pressures which might be building up . |
| 24 | Phrase by phrase , syllable by syllable , a bewitchment seemed to be building up round Adam ; Ruth almost thought he shone with his own light now , like a flame . |
| 25 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 26 | An SBU with high capital intensity could well be at an early stage of its product life-cycle , when one would expect it to be building up its investment relative to sales and also experiencing low profitability as it fights to establish itself in the market . |
| 27 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 28 | Nazarbayev also confirmed that Kazakhstan would be building up its own gold reserves . |
| 29 | Frightened as much by her own emotional weakness as by the almost dangerous , threatening atmosphere which seemed to be building up between them , she was beginning to feel like some poor rabbit caught in a trap . |
| 30 | The traffic out there will be building up already , Kathleen . |