Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 2 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 3 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 4 | ‘ It was founded here in March 1928 , ’ says Billy , ‘ and since then members have been pedalling round the highways and byways of Ulster and further afield , even during the war years . |
| 5 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
| 6 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 7 | Visit Malham at mid-day on a sunny Bank Holiday and it will be " fair thranged wi' folk " , yet wait until evening when the charabancs have gone and the cars have motored their way back downdale , and Malham becomes again a quiet little place , the only noise coming from the Hikers ' Bar of the Buck Inn where legions of Pennine Way pilgrims have slaked their thirst ; or from the bar of the Listers Arms where Dalesfolk have been coming for years to taste the best steaks in the Dales . |
| 8 | Take advantage of bath-time when hands have been soaking in warm water to gently push back cuticles with an orange stick . |
| 9 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |