Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 2 | They pause , too , about a hundred yards from where the Masai are fanning out around one of the hills . |
| 3 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 4 | so we 've got what we 've already got and we could produce i it it just worries me because we 're going , we 're going back to eleven plus days you know ! |
| 5 | Yeah , but they 're out of are n't they cos they 're saying out from eight to eight sort of time , or sixteen a week are n't they , because of the competition with them all . |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy is never at a loss for something to say , and has been sounding off about some of the current bees in his bonnet . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 8 | ENTRIES are pouring in for one of the region 's biggest sponsored cycling events — the Tour de Tendring , which will be held on May 9 . |
| 9 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 10 | For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain . |
| 11 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 12 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 13 | We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now . |
| 14 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 15 | The total numbers have been going down from 200,000 per year in 1971 to just over 150,000 in 1981 . |
| 16 | He built Britain 's biggest theme park , bought the world 's largest listed building and has this week been shouldering in on one of Manchester Airport 's more unusual records . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Keegan is happy that Newcastle are going out of 1992 on a high after a roller-coaster 12 months on Tyneside . |
| 18 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 19 | This leaves those who are holding out for more in a very unfavourable position . |
| 20 | For 15 years the basic state pension has been uprated in line with prices , not earnings ; as a result , the living standards of the poorest old people have been drifting down against those of people in work . |
| 21 | Yeah , the catholic are coming out at half past nine are n't they . |
| 22 | Yes Karen all right I 'm building up to that for goodness sake . |
| 23 | Welcome back … in a few minutes we 'll be catching up with one of the fastest men on water … |
| 24 | Before we go a word about tomorrow night 's programme when we 'll be looking back at some of the highlights from the first ten years of Central News . |
| 25 | Tony gave me his thoughts on the situation — about how pleased he was to be wandering around at four in the morning , in the pitch black , in deep snow , in the cold , in the wind . |
| 26 | I 'm going through with this until the end . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going out with one of the jocks , ’ she excused herself flatly . |
| 28 | I do n't think I 'll be going in for one of those prolonged periods of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or whatever it 's called . |
| 29 | AS world leaders journey to Rio for the Earth Summit meeting , a gathering at Middlesbrough 's St Mary 's Centre will be facing up to some of the issues confronting world leaders in Brazil . |
| 30 | He staggered , and I could see him thinking ‘ I 'm getting out of this for a bit ’ . |