Example sentences of "[adv] they [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we were halfway down they were applauding like mad . |
| 2 | These , ’ he gestured to the Twins , ‘ are the same person really , only they 're going in different directions in time and just stopping to say hello to themselves . |
| 3 | So they 're working to different standards than that the water industry . |
| 4 | So , we must oppose that and er also they 're asking for new powers er to move illegal travellers from land this is just another device because of their failure to provide sufficient sites throughout the country and if the of Essex County Council do their job er they they do n't need these new powers , what authority ought to be ha , er having are powers to provide some er , camping places for people . |
| 5 | Now they are looking for other ways to make their lives more fulfilling and satisfying . |
| 6 | Now they are calling on local businesses to offer support . |
| 7 | And now they 're talking about freezing it ! |
| 8 | The wobbly clamour was for more , and now they 're going into full production . |
| 9 | Now they were heading at top speed towards treacherous , shifting , waterlogged marsh ! |
| 10 | ‘ While the show was going on they were peering at other faces in the audience and saying things like ‘ I think I can see my mother ’ and ‘ I think I can see my uncle . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions . |
| 12 | Instead they were staring with considerable fascination at a fellow traveller who was reclining , fortunately with his back turned , a few seats down from them . |
| 13 | The concept of transnational practices refers to the effects of what people do when they are acting within specific institutional contexts . |
| 14 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 15 | We have a large coalfired power station near where I live er in Oxfordshire er at a place called Didcot , which is also a railway er junction erm roughly halfway between Harwell where we , we invented er nuclear power and , and Culham where they 're working on nuclear fusion which is a different kind of nuclear power , roughly halfway between the government decides to build the largest coalfired power station in the country . |
| 16 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 17 | Certainly they 're moving in various directions . |