Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their strengths are rather in clearing the ground of preconceived ideas about the arts , and putting new points of view . |
| 2 | Of course , I 've built my own garden up from scratch and am somewhere near getting parts of it right . |
| 3 | so it 's not two in a row yeah , we went right , er we 've been right round looking at all shops this week and we 've had a right bloody go have n't we Alec ? |
| 4 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |
| 5 | Two points made before are thereby worth reiterating : first , that the meaning of perversion is crucially context dependent ; second that one objective of this book is to restore to the concept dimensions which were obscured within the sexological/psychoanalytic traditions , though remaining inscribed within them , especially in Freud 's texts . |
| 6 | No matter how familiar with literary works you become , you can not focus equally on all parts of a text ( particularly a long text , such as a novel ) : so you need to decide which parts of it are most worth reading closely and writing about . |
| 7 | The receptionists are much at giving out these things than doctors . |
| 8 | Three instances are especially worth noting . |
| 9 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 10 | While I am all for buying British , very little of what we buy here today is entirely British . |
| 11 | I am all for sharing , but am not interested in running a commune . |
| 12 | I am all for planning from the bottom up but I am also convinced of the virtues of the presentation of draft proposals as a means for making discussion possible . |
| 13 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 14 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 15 | Players often ask why teaching professionals are so against using the wedge . |
| 16 | These packages are only worth looking at if you 're going to print professionally or if you need precise retouching tools . |
| 17 | feelings such as anger , worry and guilt are only worth having if they provoke you into doing something effective . |
| 18 | So the pattern would have been perhaps towards marrying later , or certainly having children later and then perhaps moving out of London . |
| 19 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 20 | Poor Sam had been backwards at coming forwards , she told herself . |
| 21 | Sara 's best years , Slater continued , had been just after leaving school . |
| 22 | The thing is , I mean we 're hardly to getting to grips with other people . |
| 23 | We 're well worth spending a few hours over this , I think . |
| 24 | They 're profitable pits and they 're well worth keeping open . |
| 25 | With only 29 calories a dessertspoon for mayonnaise and a mere 15 calories for salad dressing they 're well worth dipping into . |
| 26 | Essentially , they are glorified leisure centres — Butlins for the Costa Brava generation , a way of feeling like you 're abroad without having to wait for three hours at Gatwick Airport . |
| 27 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |
| 28 | If you 're seriously into running there 's only one watch . |
| 29 | Aurally the Mondays improve all the time , they 're truly worth travelling all over the world to see … |
| 30 | They 're definitely worth catching again . |