Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers and hands should be pointing downwards in this exercise . |
| 2 | We should be looking not at such practice in the past but rather in the future — more of that later . |
| 3 | ‘ This is not the way we believe it should be going forward at all , ’ Dr Armstrong said . |
| 4 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 5 | Well it 's funny because erm , when we saw Ken the other day he was saying that erm his niece rang him up and erm she 's er she 's gon na be in Crewe this weekend for a friend 's wedding and , I think she must be coming up with some , some other girl as well , because the two of them , he said , I 'm taking two young ladies out on Sunday for lunch where 's a good place for a Sunday lunch you see ? |
| 6 | By the time they 'd exchanged passionate views on every subject under the sun , from politics to gardening , the supernatural to the world population explosion , she began to suspect she might be coming late to that teenage affliction , blind infatuation . |
| 7 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 8 | You 'll be hanging off with that |
| 9 | We 'll be hearing more from this man . |
| 10 | ‘ I presume I 'll be doubling up on both parts , ’ O'Hara said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In about ten minutes time we 'll be catching up with all the local football league results . |
| 13 | I do n't think she 'll be staying off for any great length of time , with the open day coming up I think she 'll be |
| 14 | They 'll be coming out with more diseases than they went in with |
| 15 | one mistake you know forget something and you 'll be going round like this five pints I use , I use to see quite a lot of things missing you know in a certain time |
| 16 | And we seemed to have lost erm Nick Harris and manager Brian Horton , but hopefully we 'll be going back to that , so let's move to the Berks and Bucks Intermediate Cup ; Fairmile Hospital against Milton , this match finished Fairmile Hospital one , Milton three ; waiting to report , David Taylor . |
| 17 | Then he 'll be walking in with this quiz an |
| 18 | What differentiates them are all the extra functions that have been bolted on , and this is what I 'll be concentrating on in this review . |
| 19 | It 's very likely that the Petites and their children 's children could be living here for another 100 years . |
| 20 | Otherwise they could be hiding out at any one of the millions of properties in Britain . |
| 21 | Given goodwill on British Coal 's part , the first ‘ private ’ coal could be coming out of these mines by Christmas . |
| 22 | so you 'd be paying out for some more tyres if you do n't have that checked or anything |
| 23 | I told them that at one we 'd be going away on another job cos we 'd got another job booked in , but in fact I reorganized everything so that in fact we could do it for them . |
| 24 | May be sinking rapidly into this unreactive state ; suffocating on white mucus ; lacks the power to clear it but would be better ( > ) if they could . |
| 25 | Those who do n't indulge in the video games world may be losing out in many more ways . |
| 26 | If it has happened in the past , it can happen in the future , and may be occurring now for all we know . |
| 27 | The handsome summer plumage of chocolate-brown head and neck may be coming through on some adults already , but birds which are not in good condition may not attain full breeding plumage until late spring — if at all . |
| 28 | At that moment her Arabic was even poorer than mine , for she was new to the household , but on my next visit she would be rattling away in this throaty language and I would be struggling as usual . |
| 29 | The trouble was , as I and several other people pointed out , the universe was expanding so fast that even if the bubbles grew at the speed of light , they would be moving away from each other and so could not join up . |
| 30 | If only Luke Travis were — oh , fifty years old , and paunchy and balding and placid like her previous employer , she would be looking forward to this trip . |