Example sentences of "[coord] be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this month 's design , as with all projects where the solution has n't come as quick as a flash of inspiration , I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months . |
| 2 | The demand may be advertised in one or more newspapers if the demand is for payment of a sum due under a judgment or order and the creditor knows or believes that the debtor has absconded or is keeping out of the way with a view to avoiding service and there is no real prospect of the debt being recovered by any enforcement action . |
| 3 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 4 | These people are going into the familiar local stores where they shop and are walking out with the American dream they could never afford on a minimum wage . |
| 5 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 6 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 8 | We climbed down to his fishing boat and were pushing off against the stonework . |
| 9 | Some of the dogs , too , had slithered down from the bank and were swimming out towards the boar . |
| 10 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 11 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 12 | He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base . |
| 13 | And now they had left the city behind and were heading out into the open country . |
| 14 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 15 | He now firmly refutes suggestions that he is unhappy with the Yorkshire set-up and is looking around for a move to another county . |
| 16 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 17 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 19 | Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row . |
| 20 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 21 | Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers . |
| 22 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 23 | Well , at about half-seven he 'd gone into a restaurant in St Giles ‘ , Browns ; had a nice steak , with a bottle of red wine ; left at about half-nine — and was strolling down to The Randolph when he 'd met Mrs Sheila Williams , just outside the Taylorian , as she was making for the taxi-rank . |
| 24 | The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat and was digging in along the Alamein line , only sixty miles to the west of the Nile . |
| 25 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 26 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 27 | But Tsu Ma had turned already and was wading out into the deeper water . |
| 28 | Dan Ashton had come forward , and was leaning over from the side of Smith 's desk , whispering something into his boss 's ear . |
| 29 | She had gained the opposite bank and was poking about in a great drifting mass of torn grass and brushwood . |
| 30 | ‘ You see , Lewis , ’ began Morse , as the two strolled back to the front of the property , ‘ Kemp had grown tired of Sheila Williams and was starting out on a new conquest — the delectable Lucy Downes . |