Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 2 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 3 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 4 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 5 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 6 | He would n't just be sitting out in the open , would he ? |
| 7 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 8 | Because he lost sight of me quickly , he knew that I could not be going down to the river or turning left into the church : he had an uninterrupted view of both . |
| 9 | The global data structure , the Chart , would provide an easily accessible record of what exactly was going on between the different components . |
| 10 | ‘ What exactly was going down at the farm ? ’ he asked . |
| 11 | No cos they 'll still be popping out to the an will we not ? |
| 12 | You 'll still be working up at the farm and I 'll be having my midday meals up there , same as I do now . |
| 13 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 14 | The Soviet Army , has also been getting in on the act . |
| 15 | Dublin 's notorious ticket touts have also been getting in on the act through Northern front men knowing there will be a market for the tickets at ten times the outlay . |
| 16 | Marilyn has worked with Douglas Reyburn for just over a year as time keeper , but because of her clerical skills will also be helping out in the office when leave is taken by others . |
| 17 | If information could be transmitted from here to a Centauri in less time than this , it would effectively be travelling back into the past . |
| 18 | Despite what was then described as the worst financial recession for fifty years , the Mallaig train sold out in just nine days , there being no shortage of takers for seats which by now were creeping up towards the £40 mark , and beyond the pockets of the traditional excursion-train traveller . |
| 19 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 20 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 21 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 22 | Well we sha n't be going out in the car today shall we ? |
| 23 | But when you start your course you wo n't be grubbing about in the soil all the time , will you ? |
| 24 | where they were , Howard and Pete right were coming up to the erm football |
| 25 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 26 | The history specialists in the secondary school for the area may also be able to offer advice , especially as pupils from the catchment area will ultimately be going on to the secondary school . |
| 27 | A few people sat there also , talking , and some again were sitting around in the long lower lounge to the rear . |
| 28 | Something else is going on in the river |
| 29 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 30 | Times certainly are changing down on the farm in the TV soap Emmerdale 's new calendar . |