Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [verb] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Tencel has been winning new converts at a month-long fair staged by Tokyo department store Matsuya . |
| 3 | Already Dublin has been showing some concern , since they will be submitted as British government rather than Anglo-Irish proposals . |
| 4 | He said well Karen had been getting moody . |
| 5 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 6 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 7 | He began by saying that seven years earlier Meehan had been found guilty by a jury ‘ on evidence which was amply justified ’ , and then went on : ‘ Some public support was whipped up over the years for reasons which were not entirely clear and for motives which might be imagined . ’ |
| 8 | Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years . |
| 9 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 10 | ‘ Take us to our hotel , ’ George and Pat asked taxi driver Markus Wermelskirchen outside a bar in Cologne , where Celtic had been thrashed 0 — 2 in the UEFA Cup . |
| 11 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |
| 12 | Yet Iraq has been acquiring German weapons for years and Germany is now pledging , for the umpteenth time , finally to block the holes in its arms-export controls . |
| 13 | Little Wolfgang has been given two magnificent swords … |