Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around eight o'clock the sound of distant brass bands can again be heard wafting in through the bedroom windows . |
| 2 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 3 | The train could now be heard coming up the bank . |
| 4 | Despite all the hype , hate and hysteria that has gone before , something magical and mysterious can still be heard shuffling around in the dark , and this celebration is the spotlight that picks it out . |
| 5 | A few months ago , even the gruffest company bosses could be heard enthusing over jazzy Department of Employment leaflets . |
| 6 | An old sea captain , veteran of the battle of Trafalgar , and he has a wooden leg and he can be heard stumping about in October , round about the anniversary of the battle . |
| 7 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 8 | This was no kind of place to be caught reading in : a macho gay bar in a five-fathom basement somewhere beneath the charred East Twenties . |
| 9 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 10 | The women were to be seen hanging around in the yard talking quietly or trying to wash to get a few more rags to the pawnshop . |
| 11 | If a hawk flies over or a snake appears , he lets the young hop up under his wing and lifts them off the lily pads so that only their legs can be seen hanging down . |
| 12 | As with all Cirrhilabrus species , scottorum is principally a zooplankton feeder in the wild , and may be seen rising up in aggregations , composed mainly of females and juveniles , from the bottom to a metre or more when actively feeding , but in aquarium conditions it will take a variety of foods and readily adapt to a regular feeding programme . |
| 13 | Bishops in every diocese in France could be seen sorting out conflicts in ecclesiastical organization according to its principles ; parish priests and laymen were drawn into the processes , whether as parties to disputes or as witnesses . |
| 14 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 15 | I had another l pipe , piece of water pipe , which I used as a balancing device , but I found , with the watering pipe you are so stable you feel it 's a shame to be seen holding on . |
| 16 | When first purchased my specimen hardly ventured out of its hidey-hole , a flowerpot , but after a year it can be seen hopping out of its hideout at most times of the day — particularly at feeding times . |
| 17 | I do n't just want to open things and be seen trundling around . |
| 18 | Yet around the time that Servan-Schreiber was receiving his first royalty cheques , oriental faces could be seen popping up behind the walls at the Isle of Man TT races . |
| 19 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
| 20 | As the dust began to subside , shafts of late afternoon light could be seen raking down the village streets . |
| 21 | Through the billowing smoke , shadows can be seen writhing about , one of which is wearing a devil mask that leers out of the fog and shakes its horns to the hellish racket . |
| 22 | Then from the French trenches were to be seen streaming back to our lines , first a few prisoners here and there , then more and more , and at last whole columns of them ; I breathed freely once more ! |
| 23 | My Chief-of-Staff , who had been following the progress of the attack from a more distant position in Consenvoye Wood on the eastern bank , telephoned to me that the attack had failed and that everywhere our men could be seen falling back . |
| 24 | The only reliable way to see them was to pass in front of the building and turn left into the road to the cemetery : from that side some of them could be seen craning out of the windows and waving . |
| 25 | Nothing would do more to boost Daniele 's status than to be seen showing off on the Corso while his father 's life still hung in the balance . |
| 26 | On four other occasions Eubank was to be seen covering up under a hail of blows , but like so much of the 26-year-old from Brighton 's act , it was an illusion . |
| 27 | Armed with a screwdriver in one hand and a bag of chips in the other , the staff of the Computer Co-ordination Section can be seen floating in and out of offices ensuring that Lothian Highways ' computers and peripherals operate efficiently . |
| 28 | In all of this Ho Chi Minh is to be seen bobbing about like a cork on the tides of international communism , sometimes lost from sight for long periods , surviving life in Stalin 's Russia and the manifest uncertainties of the purges and , when war broke out , still remaining as an experienced if not entirely successful figure in the communist world and a distant although still immanent leader of Vietnamese communism . |
| 29 | They can often be seen climbing up creosoted telegraph-poles in a vain search for food . |
| 30 | Within days of the first autumn frosts a large brown patch of vines can be seen growing out from this area . |