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Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Proceedings may be instituted before a national court , and such proceedings have been successfully brought in the UK .
2	Meanwhile , the banks are slowly slipping over a cliff .
3	He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar .
4	‘ But you are kinda running up a backlog in my favour account . ’
5	I am merely pointing out the disadvantages of a romantic trip without romance . ’
6	In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best .
7	I am just filling in the days , she thought — until Edmund returns .
8	At the moment I am just making up the numbers .
9	Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper .
10	His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike .
11	You 're soon drive round the bend by slippery blocks that wo n't let you stand still on them , electrical blocks that can only be crossed when the current 's off , blocks that crumble when you stand on ‘ em , others with gaping holes which you must fix by flicking a switch before you can cross …
12	So they are they 're being harsher on landlords but on the rich peasants they 're just taking back the land instead of
13	We 're just running out the material that we 've got here .
14	What I should 've realized was that we 're still filling in the form
15	we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ?
16	But that also is the case , I mean er er , a lot of time th the actual design of our houses does n't lend itself for us to actually look even if you 're you 're permanently looking out the window .
17	The man shouts , ‘ There ai n't no hurry , you got another ten minutes ’ , but by then we 're both hammering down the escalator .
18	That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound .
19	And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there .
20	People are hardly beating down the door ’ .
21	I am still paying off the sofa which came from a catalogue .
22	Oh yes , they are still going down the pan , to the tune of £1 billion a year in the UK , according to the Management Consultancies Association .
23	Down in the dungeon of the first division , Rosslyn Park and Nottingham are still to get off the mark .
24	Many ex-international union players are still turning out every Saturday for junior teams .
25	People are still paying off the debt they ran up when they borrowed on the back of roaring house prices in the eighties .
26	However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead .
27	Regulators are busily clearing up the mess .
28	Some are busily scribbling down every word she utters , others are watching her quizzically , chewing the ends of their ballpoints , and those who looked bored at the outset are now staring vacantly out of the window or diligently chiselling their initials into the lecture-room furniture .
29	Blind are also bringing out a video .
30	Organisers of Wirral 's Initiative for Needy Children ( Winch ) are also lining up a celebrity spot-kick contest for the same day at Prenton Park .