Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 2 | I hang my coat up and start to shout and tell those who are hanging around in the corridor to get outside until the bell goes . |
| 3 | Swingbeat New Editioners Bell Biv Devoe are hanging out in the lounge telling stories of how the helicopter in their latest video toppled off a windy roof . |
| 4 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 5 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 6 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
| 7 | Take the heat out by having cool showers ( use a water-resistant suncream if you 're cooling down in the pool ) and use an aftersun lotion to ease the tingling and to stop your skin drying out . |
| 8 | Wear loose fitting clothing to protect your shoulders , arms and legs when you 're walking around in the sun . |
| 9 | They 're growing up in the village . |
| 10 | I , I watched the first ten minutes which was really funny cos as they 're going along in the truck ah look at that woman ! |
| 11 | All this old-style word-in-your-ear , casual approach stuff was n't getting anywhere , so we 're going out in the market place to get the right people . ’ |
| 12 | They 're all th round there , round that dahlia they 're coming up in the corner over there , and there 's some here , and I think they 're all coming . |
| 13 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |
| 14 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 16 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 17 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 18 | Royal , who looks like a bit he 's been carved out of rock , warned of what will happen if we follow in the wake of what 's been going on in the States . |
| 19 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 20 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |
| 21 | Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’ |
| 22 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 23 | What we were expecting and erm he wanted to know , to a large extent , how we felt about all the erm things that are going on in the parish . |
| 24 | He wants me , for some reason , to realize that he knows the lights are going out in the Masai world . |
| 25 | The reason why people are willing to spend money and time looking at the geology of Lake Tocarno of course is that some of our ancestors are lying around in the rocks and people are therefore very keen on getting accurate dating of the fossils and one way of doing that is to get erm accurate datings of changes in other fossils that you can co-ordinate with them . |
| 26 | To do this it uses raw materials that are drifting around in the cell , being , very probably , the products of other protein machines . |
| 27 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 28 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 29 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 30 | COMMERCIAL viewdata services aimed at domestic customers are starting up in the US later this year , but it is not clear that the public is waiting with bated breath . |