Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good deal of money has been made tarting up riverside and bank top pubs to take account of the new ambiance and to cater to the non-industrial affluent . |
| 2 | Being late will count against you far less if no one has been kept waiting around as a result . |
| 3 | It is needed to burn off methane gas , which has been discovered seeping off a disused council tip . |
| 4 | Around £300,000 a year has been spent patching up its ageing landing stage . |
| 5 | Over the past few weeks , Kenneth 's every waking moment has been spent poring over his medical books , phoning oncologists , pathologists and an assortment of scientists , asking for explanations and information on the subject of malignant lymphoma . |
| 6 | If I 'd been seen popping in and out of Ramillies Drive , tongues would inevitably have begun to wag . |
| 7 | Even from the more recent past a younger Pete Dossett or Jason Lunn would have been seen working out on the Farnborough ramp . |
| 8 | I think the proof of the pudding was that y you know you finished up in twelve minutes and arguably you have three minutes could have been spent floating around just chatting about this , that and the other . |
| 9 | What we 're doing is called averaging out . |
| 10 | How stupid to have been caught tottering about like an invalid . |
| 11 | I move sharply away from the window , shocked to find myself being looked at , cross with myself to have been caught looking back . |
| 12 | To stir up mischief , no doubt , and to eye Jean Bruce , the blacksmith 's daughter — they had been seen strolling about in the gloaming more than once , laughing quietly together and holding hands . |
| 13 | Harry 's own half-formed suspicions tended to focus on him because Clare Mallender had been seen mooning over his photograph at the Skein of Geese two weeks before her death . |
| 14 | And a cinnamon and blue nuthatch had been seen creeping up the trunk of a tree towards its mud-patched nesting hole , giving one lad a splendid chance to try out his new birthday present telescope . |
| 15 | He had been seen climbing down . |
| 16 | She , after all , had been left holding up the universe over the parents , and in all probability , whatever strict injunctions he issued now , she would , by the time he rejoined her , have relieved him of the most dreadful of all the duties his office laid on him , and somehow , with sense , sedatives and sturdy , unpretending sympathy , have gone part-way towards reconciling the bereaved to their bereavement . |
| 17 | He had looked into the other world , and he had been caught peering through . |
| 18 | He had been held , in the first place , because he had been caught carrying out what must now appear an ill-judged and irresponsible foray . |
| 19 | Apparently it had been reported hopping about in a car park close to the village . |
| 20 | Fewer birds are involved than in spring , but up to 75 have been seen passing down the Channel in a day , and once 200 ( 19 November 1972 , Selsey Bill ) . |
| 21 | Parties have been seen flying up the Channel , presumably on migration , twice in April ( 4th , 1961 , and 7th , 1969 ) , and once in March ( 30th , 1971 ) . |
| 22 | Regulations have been made setting out the circumstances and the way in which the name of an RFL may be changed on the register . |
| 23 | Numbers vary , but up to 650 birds have been noted passing up the Channel in a spring , and movements of 50 to 100 birds in a day are an annual event ; 234 flying east off Beachy Head on 15 April 1968 is the largest single movement noted . |
| 24 | Such birds as starlings , which mimic many sounds from their environments , have been heard sounding off like factory sirens , ice-cream van signals or even police cars in a hurry . |
| 25 | Falling over toys that have been left lying around can be fatal for elderly people and very serious for children . |
| 26 | Since the introduction of the laser more operations have been performed bringing down the surgery waiting list . ’ |
| 27 | White , yellowish and orange lights the size of a baseball have been reported moving around , sometimes performing aerobatics . |
| 28 | But then large portions of Jackson 's years as a recording artist have been spent picking back through complications he had no intention of creating . |