Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 2 | Marilyn has worked with Douglas Reyburn for just over a year as time keeper , but because of her clerical skills will also be helping out in the office when leave is taken by others . |
| 3 | Many of the younger voters will probably still be sticking loyally to the Ninja Mutant Turtles . |
| 4 | The type of frame you choose for your finished work is an entirely personal decision , based on your own likes and dislikes , but I would strongly suggest that you think about the type of frame you will be using right from the start of your work . |
| 5 | And I used to carry out their meals to the men , and they used to be eating out in the field then . |
| 6 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 7 | He 's said to be recovering well from an eyelid operation and reconstructive surgery on his nose . |
| 8 | He 's said to be recovering well from an eyelid operation and reconstructive surgery on his nose . |
| 9 | Any more raids and you 'll be stepping well over the line . |
| 10 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 11 | Marry Doreen and you 'll be stepping out of the frying pan into the fire , as the saying goes . ’ |
| 12 | I 'll be catching up on the progress of our women in management . |
| 13 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 14 | But we should be producing more from the land in terms of countryside and natural resources , looking after the soil , the water . |
| 15 | It 's certain to be hanging hopefully around the nation 's news-stands in big piles until about Saturday , so do n't put yourself out ordering it or anything . |
| 16 | But , whatever it is that her flooding liquid pigment does , one thing it always seems to be bringing about in the beholder . |
| 17 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 18 | He is understood to be pressing ahead with the rest of the agenda set by his predecessor , Mr Douglas Hurd , including a white paper proposing less use of imprisonment for non-violent offenders . |
| 19 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 20 | Furthermore , it is likely that some investment will be occurring somewhere in the economy so that aggregate investment is never likely actually to disappear completely . |
| 21 | The front half of a fox , paws and all , its rear end replaced by a shield-shaped slab of polished wood , appeared to be leaping out of the wall just below the picture rail , in the manner of a circus dog emerging from a paper hoop . |
| 22 | There will be family backing — no doubt the McTavish branch will be muscling in on the act , if Deirdre is to act as captain . |
| 23 | So , you 'll be ending up on the breadline worse than ever |
| 24 | The partner must be contributing financially to the household . |
| 25 | Going back there would be walking straight into a trap . |
| 26 | And he 'd be walking all over the place seen anywhere , Tommy on the wall and they 'd shout Tommy on the wall |
| 27 | If a policeman could be so well endowed with it , despite the obvious difficulties and frustrations of his profession , the ordinary man or woman would surely be brimming over with a joke or two no matter what the occasion . |
| 28 | ‘ I have no doubt we 'll be meeting again in the course of the next week or two . |
| 29 | You seem to be looking outside for a solution . |
| 30 | I shall be looking here at the effect of adjusting their published accounts between 1972 and 1991 to allow for inflation . |