Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 2 | They are competing vigorously with each other to be last . |
| 3 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 4 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 5 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 6 | That is certainly the case , but the Government are walking away from that fact by encouraging imports of coal to destroy the fabric of our communities . |
| 7 | I work at a distribution centre , where there is continuous shiftwork , which means that women and men are walking home at all hours of day and night often taking short-cuts across playing fields and waste land , totally unaware of the potential dangers . |
| 8 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 9 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 10 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 11 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 12 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 13 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 14 | It so happens Kelly and I have been looking forward to this weekend , and I guarantee that men will play no part in it at all . ’ |
| 15 | She had n't been looking forward to this session ; yet , deep down , there was a contrary twinge niggling at her sexuality that insisted she might enjoy it . |
| 16 | Oh , I have been looking forward to this evening … ’ |
| 17 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 18 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 19 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 20 | Inspector Naseby of all people , who had clearly been looking forward to this moment . |
| 21 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |
| 22 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 23 | He warned the Conservatives and Labour that ‘ from the ancient bastion of liberalism , the flames are fanning out in all directions , consuming your shabby campaigns , your out-of-date policies , your visions of the future ’ . |
| 24 | And as there is another three-and-a-half tons to go , they are looking forward to more mudlarks to come . |
| 25 | ‘ The lads are looking forward to this game against Oldham to put things right . |
| 26 | The major clubs are looking sympathetically at any scheme which will reduce the number of matches to be played next season . |
| 27 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 28 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 29 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 30 | They 'd been living together for many years . |