Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 2 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 3 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 4 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 5 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 6 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 7 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 8 | Customers are snapping up the top quality magazine with its wonderful photography and editorial . |
| 9 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 10 | On the plus side , the arrival of VAT on domestic supplies should encourage people to think about saving energy in the home , thereby reducing the demand on coal , oil and gas and , therefore , cutting emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO ) which are pushing up the global temperature . |
| 11 | Horse it up well and proper when you 're gathering up the damned folk . |
| 12 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
| 13 | We 're picking up a strange noise on the sonar . |
| 14 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 15 | Er I think I think probably they they 're going up a little bit later so |
| 16 | You do n't , you got ta , you got ta past there and say go past there and say you 're going up the next time |
| 17 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 18 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 19 | They 're going back the other way . |
| 20 | I do hope you 're feeling better , and that they 're sorting out the right combination of drugs this time . |
| 21 | Come on , now , quickly , you 're holding up the whole party . ’ |
| 22 | So , if you 're popping down a daily aspirin , keep the pop music down too . |
| 23 | A Morrissey fan said : ‘ By sending the original tickets you 're giving up the only proof you ever had of having bought them , which means they can just ignore you . |
| 24 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 25 | And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree about the other address , ’ he bluffed . |
| 27 | You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 29 | You know they 're putting up the electric lines |
| 30 | Balance sheet , quote for three thousand pounds to strip the existing roof covering , and basically well , they 're putting on a new roof . |