Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he seems to be sticking now to the same MO . |
| 2 | But while County are tipped to go up this time , Francis could be stepping on to a bigger stage before next spring . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 4 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 5 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 6 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 7 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Restlessly , she rose again and continued on around the house , following a cool stone path that seemed to be sloping down through the lush growth of shrubs and trees . |
| 10 | It need only be a few seconds of me singin' or something but you 'd be gettin' straight to a certain type of literate , intelligent audience . |
| 11 | If suffering a ropey marriage automatically led to that sort of state of grace , half the women in the country would be walking round with an outsize halo above their head . |
| 12 | Hanson is said to be gearing up for a further full-scale foray into our industrial base . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | The two sides will also be meeting again at the same venue tomorrow in the first round of the Augustus Barnet Cup . |
| 15 | But auditors will be looking carefully at the precise wording of the legislation and of the related guidance . |
| 16 | The Clinton administration is said to be looking again at the tangible objectives underlying the federal government 's support for research ( see page 776 ) , while the British government , in the shape of the Department of Trade and Industry , is seeking a more direct ( if a more avuncular than the American ) role in fostering industrial competitiveness . |
| 17 | Some may be looking forward to the next life , others begin to take a pride in having reached advanced years , even in outliving others . |
| 18 | It was so bad , I 'd be looking forward to the next meal before I 'd finished the last one , ’ she says . |
| 19 | We 'll be looking forward to the longest raft race in the world . |
| 20 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
| 21 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 22 | Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues . |
| 23 | Saying he would be writing again to the Prime Minister on the matter , Mr Macdonald claimed the moral case for compensation was now overwhelming . |
| 24 | He must no doubt be acting not for the mere purpose of putting money in his pocket , but for some legitimate purpose other than the mere acquisition of money … … . |
| 25 | The American claims to be acting purely as a private citizen but clearly his fact-finding mission has some clout if both Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew agreed to speak to him . |
| 26 | His little blue bright eyes , hard and round , that seemed this morning to be protruding out of the shallow creamy lakes around them , were full of hate for her . |
| 27 | Nobody would be wandering about with the sharpened shaft of a golf club , just in case it came in handy . |
| 28 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 29 | Supposed to be saving up to a hundred quid ! |
| 30 | And the self same people who shake their heads and utter these remarks are the ones who will be heading off to the Med or Florida on their holidays next year , doubtless piloted there by someone up front who began his or her career on a little grass strip flying those little aeroplanes that look so flimsy . |