Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The Archbishop seems to be harking back to the politics of guilt and the socialist faddism of yesteryear . ’ |
| 3 | Moreover one of them was bound to be reporting back to the Questore , and since there was no way of finding out which he would have to keep them all busy if he was to do what Bartocci had asked . |
| 4 | Even Mr Akers seemed slowly to be coming round to the sensible idea that IBM should be broken up . |
| 5 | They come out of the heart and branch like a wishbone , one to each lung , do you see that , now the arrow direction is away from the heart and that 's a vein and you 'd expect that to be coming back to the heart would n't you ? |
| 6 | it seems a bit strange though , cos I mean , indirectly we seem to be giving back to the community . |
| 7 | " Everybody seems to be going off to the wedding-breakfast . |