Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having worked his way up via his own live spoof chat show Vic 's Big Night Out , he has latterly been guesting on television 's One Hour With Jonathan Ross , a show whose format bears a strong resemblance to Reeves 's own showcase . |
| 2 | The three islands councils , Highland Region and Highlands and Islands Enterprise , plus a representative of the district councils and possibly the health boards , will meet to thrash out a list of priorities , as has already been happening under Objective 5b . |
| 3 | Paul Parker , United 's England defender who has also been missing through injury , hopes to prove his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup final in a reserve game against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane this evening . |
| 4 | The company has also been growing by acquisition , with the purchase earlier this year of the American pumpmaker Peabody Floway using £12m of its £46m cash . |
| 5 | She has n't been coming to school , Mrs Day . |
| 6 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 7 | Erm , and has recently been going to dress-making classes , but she nothing to anybody at work . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's always going to be like that here and anyone who thinks differently is living in cloud cuckoo land . ’ |
| 9 | I ca n't breathe properly-I 'm gasping for air ! ’ |
| 10 | They had all been working at stone-gathering , keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle-workers . |
| 11 | Girls had obviously been standing in line for this man from the first day he 'd put on long trousers — or even earlier , she thought grimly . |
| 12 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 13 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 14 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 15 | When Keynes had talked of the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ he had not been thinking of cricket , but the MCC had to face the reality of the decline of the leisured classes . |
| 16 | ( Jacques had not been living at home at least from 1707 , the year his Principes was published , which gives his address as rue Christine . ) |
| 17 | Remember the riot that broke out at Leeds towards the end of the 1970-71 season when Ray Tinkler allowed a West Bromwich goal to stand , ruling that Colin Suggett , standing offside when the attack crossed the halfway line , had not been interfering with play . |
| 18 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 19 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 20 | Until the sudden realisation that the world 's best kept secret was about to be broken , Ashe , because of special affinity with Yannick Noah and his own long run as the United States Davis Cup captain , had probably been reading with interest about the rise and fall of Noah as captain of the French Davis Cup Team . |
| 21 | For the first time Joe realised that Tony had really been lacking in confidence . |
| 22 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 23 | She had again unwittingly revealed her misgivings , for on the face of it we had n't been speaking of marriage . |
| 24 | That striped blouse had n't been lying on top . |
| 25 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 26 | They had undoubtedly been asking for trouble . |
| 27 | Patrickson had certainly been mining at Tilberthwaite on a lease from Sir William Pennington the date of which is obscure . |
| 28 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |
| 29 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 30 | USL and Univel have apparently been working under non-disclosure with Intel to ensure the kernel wrings specific new performance possibilities from Intel 's anticipated 80586 chip , the P5 . |