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 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He would n't just be sitting out in the open , would he ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No cos they 'll still be popping out to the an will we not ? |
| 9 | You 'll still be working up at the farm and I 'll be having my midday meals up there , same as I do now . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If information could be transmitted from here to a Centauri in less time than this , it would effectively be travelling back into the past . |
| 13 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 14 | Well we sha n't be going out in the car today shall we ? |
| 15 | But when you start your course you wo n't be grubbing about in the soil all the time , will you ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |