Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 2 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 3 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 4 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 5 | The latest CBI figures suggest settlements are levelling out after falling to 4.2 per cent in the final three months last year . |
| 6 | At least one top left-hander in the top six looks a must to help combat Warne 's leg-spin-and the odds on David Gower returning are shortening almost by the hour . |
| 7 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 8 | Does he agree that the fact that so many parts of the country are queueing up for ESA status is a tribute to him and to the usefulness of such areas ? |
| 9 | The military style great coat , which we featured a couple of weeks ago , is probably THE single item fashion victims are queueing up for . |
| 10 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 11 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 12 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 14 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 15 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 16 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 17 | Gloucestershire have not been faring well in the Benson and Hedges Cup . |
| 18 | As you 'll have heard , bass makers Warwick are branching out into the area of specialised bass amplification . |
| 19 | She had been eating mechanically until now — the vol-au-vent , some olives , a sliver of cheese — trying unsuccessfully to drown the sensation of Tom 's kiss that she could still taste and feel so strongly on her lips , but , as soon as she bit into the juicy chicken wing with its sizzling red coating of spiced crumbs , her mouth began to burn with a very different feeling . |
| 20 | The final " Dawn " sequence then has the effect both of a reprise , closing the musical form , and of an ironic comment on the human tragedy which , when it is taken out of the public arena into the privacy of Grimes 's mind , actually passes out of the consciousness and memory of those who , only a few hours before , have been clamouring loudest for its execution . |
| 21 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 22 | Wales welcome their arch-humiliators with open jaws , the scent of an overdue kill growing in nostrils that are flaring again under the inspirational coaching of Alan Davies . |
| 23 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 24 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |
| 25 | Where it has n't , the farmers are using generally for storage areas , that sort of thing a and access . |
| 26 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 27 | You can see the version of MS-DOS that you are using by including $V , and there are also several options for including special characters such as the backspace or carriage return line feed . |
| 28 | The big western lakes , Conn , Corrib and Mask , are producing little at present and the Galway Weir produced only five salmon for the week in spite of excellent conditions for fly fishing . |
| 29 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 30 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |