Example sentences of "to [be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be watching her like a hawk , waiting for some reaction . |
| 2 | " Oh never mind , Lord Hulton , they seem to be getting them down the hill now and I 'm not in such a panic this morning , anyway . " |
| 3 | You are going to be getting them at the end of the case in any event and why should you be kept out of them ? |
| 4 | Yeah but are you supposed to be wearing it around the school ? |
| 5 | We are immensely proud to be bringing it to the UK for the first time . |
| 6 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 8 | I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again . |
| 9 | Now one of the things th we find that when we play an Adam Faith record , we tend to be singing it for the rest of the day you know , like What Do You Want |
| 10 | for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts . |
| 11 | I would n't put it past him to be slipping something into the juice when nobody 's looking . |
| 12 | ‘ But do n't fed any sense of anticlimax , because everyone here wants to meet you , and all sorts of parties are being arranged , and several people are going to be calling you in the morning . ’ |
| 13 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 14 | The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client . |
| 15 | For liberty to be opposing it in the way that they are shows that they do n't remotely understand the best interests of our children or our schools . |
| 16 | Ryzhkov made no mention of a referendum in his address on May 24 , however , and subsequently officials appeared to be distancing themselves from the idea . |
| 17 | Visible now only in the panoramic view , the young woman appeared to be throwing something towards the few remaining Counsellors . |
| 18 | The drift of my rhetoric might seem to be taking me towards a traditional defence of literature , of the imagination , of creativity , of humane values in general . |
| 19 | Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday . |
| 20 | Matters relating to your home life and financial security are highlighted and , while you can anticipate some minor gains , benefits or other incentives early this month , sparks may fly just prior to the 16th , when someone appears to be taking you for a fool or expecting you to foot the bill . |
| 21 | In suggesting the rule is an inalienable part of the language , Dale Spender ironically assists those she criticises in making their sexism look natural , when she ought to be exposing it as a cultural construct . |
| 22 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
| 23 | But you do n't seem to be advocating it as a way forward ? |
| 24 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 25 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 26 | She seemed to be deciding something about the knitting in her lap . |
| 27 | ‘ Lewis seems to be making it in the old alternative comedy scene , does n't he ? ’ |
| 28 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 29 | In plain English it is more important , in an administrative context , to be seen to be doing something about a politically generated agenda of problems than it is to examine critically the agenda itself . |
| 30 | The composition of a team depends on who happens to be doing what at the time . |