Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this state he or she is putting out the mixed messages , " I need you to help me … get away from me " . |
| 2 | Well , no , and everyone was running up the slate |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know my lines and I 'm dragging down the rest of the cast . ’ |
| 4 | And anyway , Jersey 's barely overseas and I 'm giving up a day 's holiday here . ’ |
| 5 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 6 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 7 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 8 | It was dark and I was walking along an unmade road alone . |
| 9 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 10 | I believe I had the same two horses in that wagon ; and I was coming up the Bungay road past Mr Charlie Skinner 's , and the yardman let them cows out to water , d'ye see , like they allus do every morning after they had milking done . |
| 11 | A sneaky scramble or climb on Laddow Rocks and you are heading down the eroded Pennine Way track to Crowden and the Longdendale Reservoirs , with the sombre northern slopes of Bleaklow frowning over them . |
| 12 | If you 're eighteen to twenty four years old and you 're bringing up a child on your own . |
| 13 | ‘ You take the kid 's word and you 're going down a tunnel , might be a wrong-way tunnel , ’ Nick said . |
| 14 | Debbie has very fine hair and she is growing out a perm so a strong mousse was used and a reverse combing technique to achieve extra fullness for this amazing new look . |
| 15 | The van would arrive every evening to give food to the homeless living on the streets and she was serving up the soup when she saw a man sitting in the doorway . |
| 16 | Mind you when she went home she noticed her accent was getting worse and worse and she was picking up a sort of English reticence or so they enjoyed telling her . |
| 17 | A spokesman said : ‘ They will all be individually counselled and we are setting up a job shop within the store and a hot-line in conjunction with the Department of Employment . |
| 18 | ‘ On this tour , we 've got a lot more material to choose from , and we 're sorting out the set as we go along . |
| 19 | We think we might be in love and we 're trying out the words to see if they 're appropriate ? |
| 20 | He 'd whistle and all the horses would run over to us ; and there we were surrounded by these great horses , and we were holding up the babies to them ! |
| 21 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 22 | Below the nesting area the slopes were rich with vegetation , enriched by bird-droppings , and we were climbing up the slope when we became aware that a polar bear with a big cub was ‘ grazing ’ on the slope . |
| 23 | I mean , and we were going down every day to see her when she was |
| 24 | Erm , the oil company continue to invest in capital expenditure , as it should do and er , most of that is spent between services , drilling and , and radar and at , Tussauds we continue to invest er , Alton Towers has got er , the Ghost House opening today and the Runaway Train and we were finishing off the Marylebone Road project , which is a very big , big project involving er , re the complete refurbishment er , new shops and a view right there in the basement . |
| 25 | The town ended sharply , and we were driving along a bumpy lane through the jungle at reckless speed . |
| 26 | and like they run down the stairs and run back up the stairs , yeah , and they 're looking out the window out the window and they go why the bloody hell are you always just looking out of windows and he 's going do it your way and I 'll do it mine . |
| 27 | and they 're building up a petition so he 's now got a office he 's had he 's had three offices |
| 28 | When I look at these shabby partygoers waving their coffee-cups and leaning on metal-frame chairs , it 's like the plague has settled on them , and they 're twitching out the rest of their time . |
| 29 | I think , we have got all these seeds though in the greenhouse , and they 're coming up a treat ! |
| 30 | That 's why , and they were smoking out the window , er , up here . |