Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 2 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 3 | You could soon be flying away for an exciting holiday in Reims , the heart of Champagne country — all it takes is three questions and a little imaginative sparkle ! |
| 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 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He would n't just be sitting out in the open , would he ? |
| 8 | No it 's it 's the one week which bridges the two erm months , but er er I will be , that we would normally be meeting again on the thirteenth of September , would n't we ? |
| 9 | Steve Cauthen rode his 163rd winner of the season on My Lord at Leicester , where ten races attracted a crowd of less than 600 , and announced that he would not be riding again on the flat this season . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Our position is that we will not be making public statements about who we may or may not be putting forward for the mayor and deputy mayor 's position . ’ |
| 13 | If only people were the same , Harriet Shakespeare would not be staring up at a house where terrorists were holding her son . |
| 14 | However , the locomotive will not be working in with a train , as reported incorrectly elsewhere , instead arriving as a light engine from Old Oak Common . |
| 15 | It meant that Meredith Putt would not be going anywhere before the return of Superintending Constable Giles Aplin — and he would not come seeking Seb because of what he had witnessed on Handley Plain . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit . |
| 18 | Sensationally , The Smiths would not be carrying on as a band at all . |
| 19 | If Mr Moynihan is prudent , he will already be thinking ahead to the World Cup of 1994 . |
| 20 | The vehicle may still be moving forward under the impact of the initial push , but if the source of the pushing is removed , how long will it continue in motion ? |
| 21 | No cos they 'll still be popping out to the an will we not ? |
| 22 | Many of the younger voters will probably still be sticking loyally to the Ninja Mutant Turtles . |
| 23 | You 'll still be working up at the farm and I 'll be having my midday meals up there , same as I do now . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The two sides will also be meeting again at the same venue tomorrow in the first round of the Augustus Barnet Cup . |
| 27 | The feet should both be pointing forward with the arms placed in front of the body , as though one were driving a car . |
| 28 | Even if Mr Kaifu can deliver a package , he will probably be doing so in the teeth of public opinion ( especially if a tax increase is involved ) . |
| 29 | If information could be transmitted from here to a Centauri in less time than this , it would effectively be travelling back into the past . |
| 30 | If he had n't been so puffed up with conceit , the buffalo that had not been noticed by the Moi might now be basking contentedly in the shallows of the river . |