Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He s 37 for christs sake and yet he s always getting back to defend . |
| 2 | On the western side this was always an area characterised by a militancy which is presumably going out of fashion now too . |
| 3 | The family of the entertainer Leslie Crowther , who was critically injured in a car crash three months ago , says he 's slowly getting back to normal . |
| 4 | The resulting pollution is effectively killing off the rivers and poisoning groundwater . |
| 5 | With a lift , the carer takes control of the patient 's full weight , so that he makes no effort in the manoeuvre , even when his feet are on the floor and he is effectively standing up . |
| 6 | The Cheviot housing association is slowly taking over property in South Meadowell . |
| 7 | For tonight 's game , Burscough will welcome back Gary Winn , who joins a squad that is slowly getting back to full strength . |
| 8 | Like it or lump it , the world is slowly turning on to Graphical User Interfaces , whether they be Windows , the Apple Mac 's operating system , or the Next — not forgetting OS/2 v 2.0 , of course . |
| 9 | Ah sure he 's only staying out for a while till he gets married and that . |
| 10 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 11 | It 's only mucking around . |
| 12 | It 's only colouring in . |
| 13 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 14 | Even if it 's only stretching out your hand to receive the gift , it 's something yo you all of us have to do . |
| 15 | Yeah , she 's only coming up for six weeks , mm , a monster . |
| 16 | Well it 's only coming out a yard is n't it ? |
| 17 | I say she 's only doing , she 's only playing around . |
| 18 | Yeah it 's got ta rewind , it 's only going on quietly though |
| 19 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 20 | " But he 's only going over for our sakes — so we can make contact . " |
| 21 | Dr Apps ' wife Jane , who was looking after their three children at home in Elton Road , Darlington , said : ‘ Tonight it 's only going down to about minus 23 degrees centigrade . |
| 22 | ‘ Pay no attention , ’ Dickinson told the replacements , ‘ he 's only showing off in front of the visitors . ’ |
| 23 | The union is constantly looking out for ways like this to show promoters , record companies and the rest of the music industry the right way to treat musicians , and to remind the business yet again of their responsibility to put back into music just a small part of the rewards which they enjoy , thanks to the skills of musicians . |
| 24 | It refers not only to a present which is constantly breaking down to form reveal the fragments of the past , but a view of our surroundings which may seem whole and contiguous , but which in fact is forever splintering and reshaping itself as our minds piece together the fragments that our eyes actually perceive . |
| 25 | But their daughter is constantly ringing up to suggest they go to her in Wiltshire until he 's caught . |
| 26 | Thomas Gibson , 32 , who owns the shop with his sister Linda , 28 , is constantly running out of peas . |
| 27 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
| 28 | The cost of keeping a horse is constantly going up while prize money is static . ’ |
| 29 | On the other hand , those might turn out to be right who think that man is responsible for but a very small part of the destruction of fish that is constantly going on ; and in that case a boat starting with equally good appliances and an equally efficient crew would be likely to get nearly as good a haul after the increase in the total volume of the fishing trade as before . |
| 30 | However , it has to be recognised both in collecting unemployment data and in interpreting the figures that the unemployment pool is constantly turning over . |