Example sentences of "[coord] be [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library . |
| 2 | ‘ We have sent those guidelines to the other two trusts and are setting up a work party involving all three trusts to improve the way we deal with those cases and improve communications . ’ |
| 3 | The trio scored 6/6 between them in rounds seven and eight and are carving up the rest of the field , none of whom has more than 50 per cent . |
| 4 | I accidentally spilt some soft drink on the bench where we had lunch , and in a minute a dozen skinks had homed in and were lapping up the liquid . |
| 5 | Mrs Crumwallis and Mrs Garfitt had run from the serving table and were standing over a boy . |
| 6 | At the height of the violence in the early hours of the morning at Wymott jail in Leyland , Lancashire , about 400 rioters had seized control and were smashing up the jail . |
| 7 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |
| 8 | He 's finalising the documentation for a private bid , and is putting up the cash himself … |
| 9 | It had also lost around £300,000 pounds and was staving off a visit from the official receiver . |
| 10 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 11 | When I entered our room I found Mum had down two more vases and was sorting out a pile of pawn tickets . |
| 12 | He says : ‘ I wanted to sign them both and was sorting out the work permit side of it when I was dismissed . |
| 13 | A moment later he had returned , and was holding out a balloon glass containing an inch of brandy towards her . |
| 14 | And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss . |
| 15 | She had been making a cup of coffee and was leaning over a lit ring on the gas cooker to put the kettle on . |
| 16 | He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone . |
| 17 | He left the Operations Room and was running up the Pit transport belt when Cheryl Russell swung in from a side corridor and very nearly cannoned into him . |
| 18 | In a minute she had rushed from the house and was running down the garden . |
| 19 | Father Crispin had unfortunately just knocked over a wine cup and was cleaning up the mess with a napkin . |
| 20 | ‘ The priest was so preoccupied he did n't see the van and was heading up the ramp when I stopped him . ’ |
| 21 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 22 | Everton got off to good start but are slipping down the table … |