Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 2 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 3 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nobody would be wandering about with the sharpened shaft of a golf club , just in case it came in handy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But their presence in the First Division will mean that every Saturday thirty non-English players will be turning out in the top flight taking up places which should be filled by Englishmen . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Gill will be going on to the Namarroi area to take part in an evaluation with the CCM . |
| 12 | ‘ Danny will be going on about the fair all night now , ’ said David as the bus disappeared through the factory gates , then as they turned away he asked , ‘ Are you on duty tomorrow ? ’ |
| 13 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 14 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 15 | Four hundred aircraft will be flying in for the International Air Tattoo at R-A-F Fairford , the biggest airshow in the world . |
| 16 | Also on the competition front one lucky reader will be flying off to the sunny Bahamas for her honeymoon — so hurry up and enter , it might just be you ! |
| 17 | I look forward to the day , in a few months ' time , when my right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) will be getting back into the main stream of that debate and participating fully in the European Community for the benefit of all our citizens . |
| 18 | ‘ I guess you 'll be getting back for the Soviet visit , now . ’ |
| 19 | Meantime , we 'll be getting down to the fine details . ’ |
| 20 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 21 | ‘ I sha n't have to talk to them because we 'll be running round in the fresh air and there 's no very formal placement for picnics . ’ |
| 22 | A scientist who tried to cope with the orbit of Uranus by proposing that the force between Uranus and the sun obeyed something other than the inverse square law would be opting out of the Newtonian research programme . |
| 23 | Even Mr Akers seemed slowly to be coming round to the sensible idea that IBM should be broken up . |
| 24 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 25 | By 2000 it will have passed both France and Britain , and will be nosing up on the real geriatrics , Germany and Sweden . |
| 26 | She knew quite well why she would be trotting over to the new extension when summoned . |
| 27 | All these people I know will be trying out for the new series . |