Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 've been travelling hopefully in the meanwhile , ’ he said , ‘ and I 've got my first catalogue and two books ready . ’ |
| 2 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 3 | Now said to be hanging out with the totally lovable Morrissey . |
| 4 | I 'm looking out at the moodily lit bathroom and wondering what I would do if I suddenly saw William appear out there , flight bags in hand , a Surprise , honey , I 'm home ! look on his face . |
| 5 | I 'm going out on the not a special exit but a normal exit tomorrow yeah ? |
| 6 | For in a few days , this same man would be reporting back to the most feared woman in Britain . |
| 7 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 8 | A few people sat there also , talking , and some again were sitting around in the long lower lounge to the rear . |
| 9 | Three separate couples were sleeping together in the most overt and sordid way , one pair on a mattress in the theatre itself ( we called it " the bed of Sin " ) . |
| 10 | Instead , we should be in tune with what is happening environmentally in the most progressive countries in Europe and throughout the world . |
| 11 | PJ , however , is lining up with the very best . |
| 12 | Well it 's lacing there 's racing all over the all over the country and except at Ayr in Scotland it 's raining everywhere I 'm sorry to say . |
| 13 | Yes , that 's it some odd nights we was on our way home from work , it 's going up to the even when we 're on earlies and and weekends we can go there ca n't we ? |
| 14 | Well he told he 's coming round in the afterwards . |
| 15 | Ke the , the k kettle 's boiling so at the most convenient time , John , if you 'd care |
| 16 | enrolment rates for primary education are decreasing further from the already low level of 47 per cent in 1986/7 as parents keep their children out of school for lack of money to pay for school books , etc ; and |
| 17 | I am gesturing here towards the so called method of reflective equilibrium whereby general ethical principles and particular ethical judgements , as they arise fairly spontaneously , are each reconsidered until a consistent position is found with which one can live . |
| 18 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 19 | His decision to do so , however , appears to have been motivated more by his belief that he had been personally insulted by the Spanish during the earlier marriage negotiations and by a romantic desire to restore his sister and brother-in-law to their inheritance than by any wish to display solidarity with the Protestant cause , which was crumbling away before the seemingly irresistible progress of the Hapsburg armies . |
| 20 | The driver of the bus was pointing frantically at the now disappearing taxi . |
| 21 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 22 | The battle for territory was hotting up before the today 's London peace conference under the chairmanship of Prime Minister John Major . |
| 23 | She glanced at him , noticing that he was staring back through the partly open door of the study . |
| 24 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |