Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parnell was in jail , and the British authorities are desperately holding on to power as support for the Land League accelerates . |
| 2 | It must therefore be recognised that the greatest protagonist of deregulation are largely acting out of self-interest , and that they themselves demonstrate remarkable inconsistency and reversals in their arguments — depending on which area of that self interest they may be pursuing at any particular moment . |
| 3 | Those who are most likely to be affected by the Labour party 's proposals to surcharge savings are those who are just coming up to retirement . |
| 4 | We turn up to funerals in everyday clothes , we refuse to let people send flowers so there is no opportunity for a communal expression of feeling , we are reluctant to take more than one day off work on the grounds that we 're better getting on with life as if weeping and mourning had no part in real life . |
| 5 | Annie thought , Ruthie , you liar , you do know , you 're just holding back in case we think you 're being heavy , theoretical male for godsake . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're just coming out of shock and are now beginning to pay the price for what he has done . |
| 7 | Whoever it is says you 're still nosing about in business which does n't concern you . ’ |
| 8 | And if we , yeah , and if we , yeah we 'll still win we , well we 're still going down in history for winning three fo , , all three matches in a row . |
| 9 | They 're always going down for anaesthetic , we ca n't find it . |
| 10 | " You 're both going in to school on Monday , are n't you , Martha ? " |
| 11 | And when you look far into space , you 're also looking back in time and we 're looking back when we look at the very most distant objects . |
| 12 | They 're also fighting back at arson attacks on their property , with the new Farmwatch scheme . |
| 13 | They 're now sitting up in bed , waiting for their aunt to give them a kiss — and looking like little angels , ’ Julie told her , adding with a grin , ‘ which , of course , they are n't ! ’ |
| 14 | But I think the main thing that they all had to bear to survive , was a tremendous amount of overcrowding. erm Now , we 're fast running out of time , are n't we . |
| 15 | But Fraser , pressed on the question of value for money resorted to other arguments : " they are more economical , but they are not so satisfactory , they are always going off for sickness of some kind or another , or their mother is ill or something of that kind — that is the greatest trouble , their mother is ill constantly " . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that the 486 based PC 's are gradually coming down in price the evidence suggests that the 386 is still the preferred entry level machine . |
| 17 | In the mid-1980s , drainage contractors in the Midlands are still moving in on river valleys , starting with the stream itself and then clearing every adjacent hedge and copse as part of the same contract . |
| 18 | But , just as many writers have taken Virginia Woolf as an mandate to waffle in subjective , near-incoherent mode about matters domestic without a sliver of her context , variety of perspective , real innovation and sheer writing genius , so many fey sprites are still dicking around with fairy stories , dry old myths and ( oh dear , oh dear ) the tale . |
| 19 | Huge fires are still raging out of control in California . |
| 20 | We are both pulling off into Polo Park , a large two-storey shopping mall which is our city 's pleasure palace of conspicuous consumption . |
| 21 | I should mention , I suppose , that in the far east of the county erm the cliffs at Fairlight , which are sands and clays are also going back at sort of the same types of rate , that they 're also receding very very rapidly . |
| 22 | As a final instance of the merging of interests of carp angler and pondkeeper , many waters are now stocking up with ghost Koi ( Ogon/Common carp crosses ) , not to mention Orfe and Grass carp . |
| 23 | He has not acknowledged that more people are now moving out of unemployment than a year ago . |
| 24 | Many employers are now cutting back on company cars . |
| 25 | Ford tested Options in 15,000 deals for two years before launching it nationwide , so many of those cars are now coming up for sale . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've taken an invisibility potion and I 'm just coming back into view . |
| 27 | I 'm rapidly running out of cash … yes , I know , the social security people . ’ |
| 28 | Some of them are even looking out for compensation . ’ |
| 29 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 30 | I made my way through all the guard checkpoints and got to the Hotel Intourist in the middle of town at about 11 o'clock when David and Geoffrey were just siting down to lunch . |