Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 2 | If a policeman could be so well endowed with it , despite the obvious difficulties and frustrations of his profession , the ordinary man or woman would surely be brimming over with a joke or two no matter what the occasion . |
| 3 | Mr Gregory could be looking around for a job at the moment . ’ |
| 4 | The lone watchman might , just possibly , be wandering around with an oil-can in hand but more probably was immersed in one of the lurid magazines with which what was called the engine-room library was so liberally stocked . |
| 5 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 6 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 7 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 8 | I 'm nearly seventy , er my pension , will be going up by a pound and odd , I 'm not right sure how much . |
| 9 | I shall be going round with a notebook . |
| 10 | Erm but basically you , you would be going in to a village to , to try and encourage land reform with this document or knowing that this document existed . |
| 11 | ‘ Will you be staying around for a while , or going straight back to bonny Scotland ? ’ |
| 12 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 13 | getting fed up Okay just to finish up now , because we 're gon na be moving on in a minute . |
| 14 | I mean you do n't wan na be push , push I mean but at the same time you do n't wan na be you do n't definitely wan na be running around like a cuckoo head do you ? |
| 15 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |
| 16 | I thought she must be coming down in a moment . |
| 17 | ‘ Malcolm may be coming in for a couple of days each week , ’ said Rofe . |
| 18 | Miranda will be coming in in a minute . |
| 19 | It is the purest form of finding out about an ancient site , but it does depend on the ability of the observer to distinguish information that may be coming in from a variety of sources . |
| 20 | If only people were the same , Harriet Shakespeare would not be staring up at a house where terrorists were holding her son . |
| 21 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 22 | Chemistry in turn , even ‘ organic chemistry ’ , was considerably more advanced than the life-sciences , which just seemed to be taking off into an era of exciting progress . |
| 23 | She had merely telephoned to let him know that she would be handing over to a girl called Kate . |
| 24 | Again , if you 're going to be using notes , you do n't want to be talking down to a table , so think about whether you 're s you 're going to , in your practising , are you going to let your eyes flick down to your notes that 're on the paper , on the table , or are you gon na pick them up ? |
| 25 | As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit . |
| 26 | Sensationally , The Smiths would not be carrying on as a band at all . |
| 27 | It was good to be sitting down with a family for dinner even though I did n't understand everything the Frenchman and his wife were talking about . |
| 28 | She was in danger of losing her beloved Mrs Howard , who might be setting up with a brother-in-law in a public house , and I wrote : |
| 29 | I am sure that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State must be delighted that she will be summing up in a debate that concerns an area of activity in which expenditure has increased 160 times under this Government . |
| 30 | However , the locomotive will not be working in with a train , as reported incorrectly elsewhere , instead arriving as a light engine from Old Oak Common . |