Example sentences of "[coord] be [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 2 | However , the company is still hauling 750,000 tonnes of potash each year from seams deep under the North Sea and is building up an increasing export market . |
| 3 | Somehow the virtual reality had overflowed the confines of that simulated chamber , and was taking over the entire broadcast . |
| 4 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 5 | Jim had left , moved on to London and was heading up a new Rapid Response Unit there in connection with HEMS , the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service . |
| 6 | Denied its usual egress , the river had burst its banks and was pouring down the fire-ravaged streets . |
| 7 | He liked to buy their food ; he even enjoyed cooking it sometimes , and was putting on a little weight . |