Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first one will keep the rope taut as you move offstage and run round the back and take over from the second helper who has been keeping the ‘ load ’ end taut . |
| 2 | When Phil and I , the first time we 'd been skiing together , so that was last , not last year |
| 3 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 4 | Last night he had been suffering from jet lag ; now he seemed to be fully recovered , and power flowed from him in waves . |
| 5 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 6 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 7 | You kindly said that you would call hon. Members next week who had been rising . |
| 8 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 9 | The last thing we need is having to spend more time in the God-forsaken place than we have to . |
| 10 | The last thing we want is teaching by numbers , reducing learning to a series of mechanistic measured units . |
| 11 | The last thing he remembered was reading at his counter . |
| 12 | The next thing we did was starting to support and run it , of course . |
| 13 | ‘ Because you 're a landlord , I suppose , ’ I said , holding back the next thing I had been going to say and then deciding he might not mind . |
| 14 | The next thing I remember is standing on the motorway verge , waving for help . |
| 15 | The next thing I remember is coming to on the canal bank , and a man bending over me asking if I was all right . |
| 16 | Then he hit me with the butt of his gun and the next thing I remember is coming round to find my colleagues crouched anxiously beside me . |
| 17 | The next thing I remember was seeing the face of a policeman above his yellow emergency jacket , who was reassuring me : I was all right . |
| 18 | The next thing I remember was getting up and falling down again because my feet were numb , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The next thing I remember was lying on the ground surrounded by players and officials . ’ |
| 20 | The next thing I recall is hearing Daniel 's screams and going looking for him . |
| 21 | I know , for the last year we 've been saying we 'll go to Norwich |
| 22 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |
| 23 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 24 | For the last year he 's been setting out his story in his autobiography , a glimpse into decision making during operations like Desert Storm and an insight to his personal life . |
| 25 | In the last year I have been helping residents with a variety of local problems and have successfully applied pressure on Oxfordshire County Council to act on the problems caused by the gypsies at the end of the Abingdon Road , near the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre . |
| 26 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
| 27 | Since last Christmas I have been struggling towards getting better . |