Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Wimbledon defender John Scales will make his comeback at Middlesbrough tomorrow after being out for six weeks with a groin injury . |
| 2 | ‘ But I believe it would be unfair on him after being out for so long to go straight back in and do a job . |
| 3 | Popular Welsh jockey Tim Rooney expects to resume at the Llandeilo Farmers after being out of action since a fall with his first ride of the season . |
| 4 | Kenneth Renton , of Wentworth Investment Services , was yesterday arrested by City of London police at Heathrow Airport after being out of contact since last Friday . |
| 5 | Aggers ' biggest worry was that he might make a fool of himself bowling at Gooch after being out of the game for two years . |
| 6 | Gavin had been celebrating his first wage packet after being out of work for 9 months . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 8 | Middlesbrough , though , welcomed back skipper Kernaghan to the heart of their defence after being out since November with a stress fracture . |
| 9 | And , after being out in the sunshine with the children most of the day , she 'd lost her pale , city complexion , becoming as brown as a berry and looking much younger . |
| 10 | He they knew that they had a great sense of the weather themselves after being out in it . |
| 11 | it 's probably , it , it may of been up to three years |
| 12 | Oh and you used to let us stop up and watch him , it must of been on at about nine o'clock or something |
| 13 | Anyway coach Olsen actually before this game mentioned that some players was knocking on the door for a place — Fjortoft and Sorloth has kind of been out of form recently . |
| 14 | Seemed a bit daft to me though you 'd think they , mind you they 'd , they 'd supposed to of had erm er sub contractors down there , in that , that is disgusting , some of these should of been out of the door the . |
| 15 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 16 | It 's really confusing , cos kids are they 'll all of been in at play time today wo n't they ? |
| 17 | If you knew him to be a criminal , you suspected him of being up to no good . |
| 18 | ‘ QIS has made a very successful job of forming corporate glue ’ across locations between colleagues and now the inevitable fragmentation and the feeling of being up for grabs ’ is destroying links and making people retreat into defending their own area . |
| 19 | Biddy was not coming and Nails had no intention of being around at four o'clock ; his expression at Friday lunchtime was grim . |
| 20 | ‘ Fortunately , after eight weeks of being back on his normal diet , his nutritional levels returned to normal and … |
| 21 | That he did not depart of his own free will is abundantly evidenced by the fact that he left behind all his belongings and expressed the intention of being back within the period of four hours . |
| 22 | It is bad to lapse into the jargon without conveying its meaning and its connotations , because that is lazy ; and unforgivable to use it just to give the impression of being in with the chaps . |
| 23 | ‘ In that house over there , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm not at all afraid of being out at night . |
| 24 | But in even-handedly denouncing ardent Europhiles and Europhobes as ‘ superannuated Sumo wrestlers ’ he was , in effect , accusing Downing Street of being out of date — even on worker participation in industry and the Social Charter . |
| 25 | With François Mitterrand 's re-election for a second seven-year term in 1988 , they had to face the demoralising prospect of being out of power for 14 years . |
| 26 | Now we must ask , what are the dangers of being out of work ? |
| 27 | They were accused of highhandedness , selfaggrandisement , venality , and of being out of touch with the everyday life of Orkney . |
| 28 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 29 | But they were more interested in telling Mo about their experiences of being out of work . |
| 30 | But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) . |