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Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ?
2	The only sport my old man was interested in was beating up the rest of the family .
3	‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice .
4	Obviously for the average electrician , stockbroker , or humanities-trained academic to be laying down the law un the value of a human blood substitute from cows or the spread of BSE would , as things stand , be foolish .
5	" To be bossing up the school .
6	Ford rumoured to be bringing out a new Capri — a nation quakes
7	BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week .
8	He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison .
9	No I asked her to start but that 's all , and I kept that in the meant to be setting up a place in the posh area but they got ta have
10	Er , let's , they are , seem to be setting up the s the administrative structures for regional government , without any democratic regional government taking part in the process .
11	The German barrage seemed to be slackening off a bit , though the Allied guns were still firing over our positions , their shells shaking the trees as they headed toward the German trenches with a loud swish as they passed overhead .
12	Where they repairing client , where there is hopefully an extremely good relationship , we felt that that was a bit dangerous to be sending out a form to the Chief Executive of saying what er do you think of the service .
13	But whereas normal grieving focuses on different aspects of the lost person , the depressed person seems to be grieving over an inner loss .
14	You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word .
15	But , by now , he would have had to be moving up the ladder , getting experience of command .
16	The storm seemed to be moving over a little .
17	Socialist Worker appeared to be soaking up the potential trade union readership , while the audience of students in revolt could dwindle — although with the formation of the Revolutionary Socialists Student Federation there were hopes that the ‘ new vanguard ’ might survive to detonate the proletarian uprising .
18	It was strange to be filling in the two forms at the same time .
19	Drug cartels and terrorists are reported to be taking over the counterfeit clothing business .
20	Events , at last , seemed to be taking on a constructive momentum of their own .
21	Who was I to be taking on a contender like Thomas Carter , a management consultant and the owner-occupier of a £500,000 property set in the accessible Arcadia of Boars Hill ?
22	She settled him in his chair , and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little .
23	This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him .
24	This is followed by pushing the arms above the head , so that the cross breaks and the student appears to be holding up the ceiling .
25	It seemed far too insignificant to be holding back a lake large enough to stretch from London to the Scottish borders .
26	After the race they seemed to be coming up a little more , and by the time we arrived back in Britain I was covered in them .
27	But erm , we do seem to be coming out a little bit light .
28	seems to be making up a bit .
29	Mr Woodbine 's hardly going to be carrying around a vegetable in his pocket , now is he ? ’
30	‘ Sure God save us , ’ they would say , ‘ is n't it soft in the head the poor man must be to be carrying round an old gun for to fight the Rooskies ? ’