Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our women are constantly having to fight in shop queues , and have thus become aggressive and unfeminine . |
| 2 | students tomorrow , and we are all going to meet for lunch . |
| 3 | We 're always getting drilled on TV . |
| 4 | But er they 're never going to , I do n't think they 're ever going to get on top of the waiting lists because they 're introducing so many new operations . |
| 5 | And we 're really having to struggle to sort of make ends meet . |
| 6 | Since that day I have done several more solo flights and I am now beginning to learn about navigation . |
| 7 | Police fear thieves are now stealing to order for body builders who want dangerous drugs . |
| 8 | Those who took part in the last Challenge are now trying to adjust to life , and jobs , back on dry land . |
| 9 | Another couple , Joseph and Evelyn Greaves , are now having to live with daughter Susan Berry in Fir Tree after losing about £7,000 worth of belongings . |
| 10 | I 'm just trying to think of music shows which attempt to break with existing sexual stereotyping . |
| 11 | I 'm just saying to end of season . |
| 12 | I 'm also hoping to put in time capsules , so people in 150 years time will know what what was happening in Southmoor and the locality . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm never going to get to prison , ’ he thought . |
| 14 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |
| 15 | So you were just lying listening to music in between the chair and the couch ? |
| 16 | Mary brought out a rough-and-ready picnic on a doth and we sat under old apple trees on which the apples were already beginning to glow with ripeness . |
| 17 | These girls were the ones who were always getting put in detention , never did any homework , smoked dope at 11 and started having sex at 14 — shoplifting was just another phase for them to go through . ’ |
| 18 | They were both going to die of exposure . |
| 19 | Maybe I could stack it up and set the place alight , so that they — and that terrible female they were now conspiring to bring to life — would perish in the flames , together with all Frankenstein 's instruments and notes . |
| 20 | McLeish , who had understood from Francesca 's report of her lunch that she and her seniors were indeed going to push for assistance , was amused to hear that she had not succeeded in disguising her intentions from Miss Morgan . |
| 21 | Up to a point , because now we 've got the the go ahead for the new chiller , which is ordered , erm that 's only getting rid of part of the problem . |
| 22 | Now it 's obviously going to vary from establishment to establishment , but do you feel that we perhaps still have some way to go ? |
| 23 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 24 | Buying this week what you bought last week is only going to end in failure . |
| 25 | In effect this is already starting to happen through television concentration on a few top clubs with only a brief nod in the direction of the rest . |
| 26 | This created a conundrum for the label , resolved with the following decision : ‘ You can suffer from Number One-itis , ’ reckons Andy , ‘ which is always trying to get to Number One or go one better than you managed last time . |
| 27 | Unlike its competitors , Eden is still avoiding building in support for wireless data networks in its machines : it 's an attractive market on paper but ‘ we 've looked at the available technology and put together designs , but have n't taken it very far because the pricing just has n't worked ’ says Crisp . |
| 28 | ‘ Silas is still longing to go to bed with me , so you can wish me luck that I 'll get him there eventually — but in the right circumstances , of course . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She is also learning to swim at school which before was impossible . |
| 30 | Unix International is also preparing to look beyond Unix System Laboratories in its quest for technologies on top of and around the core Unix System V Release 4 ( SVR4 ) operating system , say sources close to the organisation . |