Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 2 | But they are also a matter of economic necessity , as Europe competes against other countries , particularly in the Pacific Basin , who are already investing substantially in the skills of their rapidly growing and younger population . |
| 3 | We 're not having a party we 're just gon na , they 're just coming round in the afternoon to play with you and we can have a drink and |
| 4 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 5 | A long way from here the amiable and taggled sheep are still curling together in the roadside bus shelter and the wind still moves through the unclad trees . |
| 6 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |
| 7 | I read reports that convoys of ‘ our boys ’ are hopelessly blundering about in the desert , completely lost within 30 miles of the Kuwaiti frontier . |
| 8 | By this time stress waves are probably racing about in the material in all directions at the speed of sound ( that is faster than the crack ) , being reflected off both old and new surfaces , and we are likely to end up with not one crack but with a great many . |
| 9 | Cardiff have always attracted players , but what has fuelled the apprehension of the other Merit Table clubs is that they , along with Newport , are now competing eagerly in the transfer market . |
| 10 | Another feature that we welcome is that manufacturers are now investing here in the manufacture of equipment to supply the telecommunications industry because of the strength of the underlying service provision in this country . |
| 11 | Kenya Asians are now working hard in the darkness and grime of British cities , where Patel is among the commonest names in the telephone directory . |
| 12 | He went to Redbridge Forest , who merged with Diadora League Dagenham , and are now going well in the GM Vauxhall Conference . |
| 13 | Most comical is Mick Kam , whose eyebrows , once shaved off in an unfortunate moment of artistic folly , are now growing outwards in the style of a neanderthal Denis Healey . |
| 14 | I 'm not standing on anything I 'm , I 'm just going back in the kitch |
| 15 | I 'm always waking up in the night . |
| 16 | There was to be no paddling around in the shallow waters for this man , Ruth thought . |
| 17 | And how many are there standing there in the playground ? |
| 18 | We were soon splashing about in the surf washing off weeks of dirt accumulated in the slit trenches . |
| 19 | And they were just coming round in the summer . |
| 20 | Several of the photographers and columnists were already drifting in in the hope of an early drink ( they 'd be unlucky — we could n't serve drinks before twelve ) . |
| 21 | Others were already wriggling around in the Alice 's undercarriage , zeroing in on the inlets . |
| 22 | The firecrackers were still exploding intermittently in the courtyard and occasional salvos of cannon fire boomed out from beyond the walls of the Imperial City . |
| 23 | Momentous things were also happening socially in the North-West of England following the highly successful venture by the local society in the opening of the first social club for the deaf in the country in 1878 at Manchester . |
| 24 | I think all that stuff is just lying down in the face of the mass media . |
| 25 | James Green , right , is twenty and is just starting out in the advertising business . |
| 26 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 27 | It 's just floating there in the air ! |
| 28 | England 's tries were not magical creations , just simple quick passing , where the movement is always going forward in the classic tradition of back play , but a tradition that seems beyond Scotland 's ken at the moment . |
| 29 | It is permanently sitting there in the sense that , if only you knew its genetic formula , you could instantly find it ; moreover , its neighbours in this special kind of space are the biomorphs that differ from it by only one gene . |
| 30 | A recent analysis from Jones Lang Wootton shows that demand for business space is still growing faster in the south east than in other regions with about half of the firms surveyed looking for premises outside London . |