Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 2 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 3 | Er where the report has been pointing out the cost , not just in financial terms , but in terms of , of hurt and unhappiness of a home breaking up , a family breaking up . |
| 4 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |
| 5 | The latest entry , Quarterdeck with the long-awaited Desqview/X , however , has been stirring up the market with some high profile selling , backed by a positive reception from the industry . |
| 6 | The microprocessor wars are going to get vicious over the next two or three years , and to convince its acolytes that Sparc will be one of the survivors , Sun Microsystems has been mapping out the future of the architecture . |
| 7 | ‘ And when you look at some of their shops and you see the same old wooden table that has been sitting out the front for months priced at £10 , or £20 , you realise the money has got to be coming from somewhere else — and we know it 's coming from knocking . ’ |
| 8 | He hung his medal in the shop , decided it would be nice to have a few more , and has been pounding out the miles since . |
| 9 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 10 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 11 | Erm up then you can turn round when the smaller people come and say are carving up the price , you can turn round and say , Oh no they 're not that 's the price and that 's the price . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |
| 14 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 15 | Yet only 9 per cent of women who could benefit are taking up the option . |
| 16 | A gentleman in waiting was walking down the aisle . |
| 17 | Although the ball might have been slipping down the leg side , Taylor was adjudged lbw by umpire Tony Crafter , who was officiated in his 33rd Test , breaking Bob Crockett 's previous Australian record . |
| 18 | Matata poled gracefully ; he could have been punting down the Cam as his pole pushed blue and white water lilies aside . |
| 19 | If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter . |
| 20 | Anyone could have been looking out the window seeing them being cheap with the teddy boy . |
| 21 | Daylight would have been shining up the gallery from that east window . ’ |
| 22 | In no time we were a mile from either bank … and the daytrippers were thoroughly enjoying themselves.Even one couple who should have been cruising down the Seine were happy with the alternative : |
| 23 | Looking back now they might have been playing out the rôle of characters from some nineteenth-century romantic novel . |
| 24 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 25 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 26 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 27 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 28 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 29 | I was reading through back copies of MKM which I do quite often and started to read Help Line in the April '91 issue , when my husband ( who had been clearing out the attic ) came into the room with an old TV Times — Feb 1960 . |
| 30 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |