Example sentences of "be [v-ing] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the Brownies ' mums are gon na be wasting away |
| 2 | At that moment her Arabic was even poorer than mine , for she was new to the household , but on my next visit she would be rattling away in this throaty language and I would be struggling as usual . |
| 3 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 4 | However , it is by no means certain that either of the established parties would agree to change since they would be bidding away long-term electoral advantage in return for a short-term in office in a coalition government in which they might have only limited power . |
| 5 | If your correct entry is the first to be drawn you 'll be driving away a fantastic new Renault Clio RT 1.4 voted Car of the Year ! |
| 6 | Pedalling an auto-assisted bicycle without starting the engine has been held to be driving away . |
| 7 | The lucky winners of our Win a Metro a day contest in August will all be driving away brand new J-Reg motors . |
| 8 | She rarely came out of Merchiston Lodge , except to go to the village , and it was quite a pleasure , she discovered , to be driving away from it . |
| 9 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 10 | Indeed the second sentence seems to be merely the passive reformulation of what is expressed by Someone saw him to be walking away , with the inferential or conceptual sense of see rather than the perceptual one . |
| 11 | But by this time the profit level will be falling and the impetus will be dying away . |
| 12 | It 's not natural for a young man to be frowsting away indoors , in a fine crisp day like this ! |
| 13 | Given the link between fertility and tenure , and tenure and unemployment , a relationship between family status and unemployment would be expected : figure 7.8 shows that this is indeed the case — the unemployed are much more likely to have children ( and — perhaps more surprisingly — to be living away from home ) . |
| 14 | Now I think in our experience so far we find that erm the accounts clerks in the back office are those who are most likely to be bashing away at the character terminals , those are the people who are bashing data into the system . |
| 15 | A vital part of the thing seemed to be ebbing away . |
| 16 | Phillipson summarises American research which indicates that elderly people may be turning away from informal care based on kinship towards formal professional support . |
| 17 | It really hurts me to be going away . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Aye , ’ Paddy said , looking at Winnie , ‘ ye must have a right fat purse tae be going away tae London . ’ |
| 19 | Will she be going away with you ? |
| 20 | Will you be going away again ? ’ |
| 21 | He said hastily , ‘ I 'll be going away for a bit and I guess I 'll be ravenous when I get back . |
| 22 | Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker . |
| 23 | We have n't found him yet , but thanks to you and your horse we 'll be going away from Witney richer than when we arrived . |
| 24 | We 're coming up to a bank holiday , and most people will be going away . |
| 25 | Kirby , who will join the veteran ranks in November , said : ‘ I never dreamt I would be going away with two gold medals . ’ |
| 26 | They probably wo n't be going away this summer . |
| 27 | Do you think you 'll be going away this year or |
| 28 | I told them that at one we 'd be going away on another job cos we 'd got another job booked in , but in fact I reorganized everything so that in fact we could do it for them . |
| 29 | In a group of 20 or 30 youngsters from the background described by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) it would be considered odd for someone to be puffing away and spreading filth in the direction of others in that group . |
| 30 | Nev never intended to be slaving away doing kitchen fitting . |