Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , and then I went on to Rome to look at a Goldoni production and I had to see the Pope , but I tell you — I hope you 're not Catholic — the sight of the old pullet being cheered up the aisle of St. Peter 's … |
| 2 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 3 | I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men . |
| 4 | By nineteen ninety-one sixty-one per cent was being carried on the roads with just seven per cent going by rail — part of the continuing trend of freight away from rail to road . |
| 5 | Trow Gill is dry , a grass slope rising and narrowing to a breach in the cliffs at the top , a passage through it being made up a tumble of boulders . |
| 6 | Another squint through the net curtains showed Cunningham being pushed up a ramp in the direction of the reception area . |
| 7 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 8 | ‘ I was only young at the time , but I can still recall the funeral , and the flat cart with his coffin being pulled up the field by his horse . |
| 9 | A block of stone being brought up the slide from an underground quarry at Herston . |
| 10 | Having secured seats on the saloon deck we went to look about us , and saw another large flock of sheep being driven down the quay towards our steamer . |
| 11 | A lady in a black straw hat , who was being weighed out a Pound of grits by the grocer 's assistant , overheard . |
| 12 | William and Joe were busily employed , hands in pockets , watching the Francis Forbes Barton being winched up the slipway by the old capstan after a practice launch . |
| 13 | After that I would shower them away , and peering over my side — all in my mind — would watch them being swept down a hillside in a cleansing torrent of water . |
| 14 | As the tale came to us , my lord , the boy was seen bound and muffled , being led up the slopes from Severn into Parfois . |
| 15 | They are structured in such a way that while we feel our way visually into the space suggested by the subject our eyes are simultaneously being run up the picture by short thrusts in and out of a limited pictorial depth . |
| 16 | Once they came upon Acorn , who was evidently being taken on a tour of the same kind . |
| 17 | The 80-strong party were given a briefing on Sullom Voe 's environmental care programme at the Fraser Peterson Centre before being taken on a tour of the terminal site . |
| 18 | The second reading of the Finance Bill follows and from 1969 the bill has then been divided , clauses and schedules which involve issues of principle being taken on the floor of the House while the more detailed clauses are sent upstairs to a standing committee . |
| 19 | The buck of decision is being passed down the chain of consequence . |
| 20 | That did not prevent her from being thrown down a mineshaft to her death in 1918 . |
| 21 | Increasingly , the process of clearing is done electronically rather than manually , the information to debit or credit individuals ' accounts being sent down the line to the various branches by computer . |