Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 2 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 3 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 4 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 5 | Two figures who had been walking ahead of them , suddenly turned and came sauntering back . |
| 6 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 7 | Pro-active public relations is when you are helping to make a situation or event happen and are keeping ahead of things . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been keeping out of my way all morning . ’ |
| 9 | Rogers had been looking out of a window . |
| 10 | The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion . |
| 11 | ‘ No , your sum was n't wrong , but you are writing instead of printing . |
| 12 | Yet all three poets are writing retrospectively of |
| 13 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 14 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 15 | He would have been acting out of character and trying on something his party had wearied of . |
| 16 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 17 | This may be partly because there are many pigs , who are a match for the boys , and partly because the boys are acting out of reasonable necessity , and not immature impulsiveness . |
| 18 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 19 | Very cost What I 'm saying is it 's quick erm people expect to do it it 's something oh if they 're writing instead of going round I 'll pick up the phone and do it . |
| 20 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 21 | ‘ No , you 've had a bad time , and now you 're snapping out of it , that 's all . |
| 22 | ‘ In your case you probably think you 're acting out of expediency . |
| 23 | Besides , you 're acting out of character . |
| 24 | And they make they 're living out of it . |
| 25 | But they 're wanting out of their business . |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe we 're going out of our minds — getting geriatric . ’ |
| 27 | You know , just happen to be passing when they 're going out of school . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ So you 're going out of the frying-pan into the fire ? ’ |
| 29 | Always tell her when you 're going out of the room and , when she can understand , that you 'll be back soon . |
| 30 | According to Tony we 're going out of at the end of the month . |