Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it be welfare , gas bills , housing , you name it and we 're in there fighting to , to keep them above the water , their heads above the water . |
| 2 | For the chick , it must have been like suddenly landing in the Sahara . |
| 3 | He would have been in there swinging with the best . |
| 4 | Might be worth just thinking about that for me , actually , have a a future negotiation . |
| 5 | ‘ That as a member of a large merchant-banking family , with some ties to the Soviet Union , you will be over there looking at the country with a view to future investment opportunities . |
| 6 | Oh I 'm sure it would mean an awful lot to them and the fact that you 're so successful coming out of Ireland would mean a lot to them as well you know and er er it 's nice to be able to er you know to do that for them if they 've been over here living for you know some of them have never been back maybe and some of them have never seen Ireland because maybe their their parents or their grandparents came from there . |
| 7 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 8 | The strategies adopted for the closures of Powick , Banstead and Exminster were at once puzzling in their diversity . |
| 9 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 10 | Whether we take Lorentz 's view that the masses were bored and ready to be distracted or Macpherson 's notion that they had sensed that the movies were at least hinting at new possibilities , it is difficult to avoid being swept along by the romance of those early days . |
| 11 | As both manoeuvred for position , whether it was cutting down trees and digging up streets in Hanoi or sending ‘ unauthorized ’ French battalions to various strategic points , the risk — and incidence — of clashes increased and both sides were at least preparing for war . |
| 12 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 13 | ‘ He draws some encouragement from the fact that the British are at least thinking about industrial , as opposed to consumer , co-operatives . |
| 14 | Well the Australians are at least trying to did n't have much success apparently |
| 15 | If we do not yet have the solution to the problem of consciousness , we are at least working towards it within the right framework . |
| 16 | While these figures are still terrible , they are at least heading in the right direction . |
| 17 | It 's worth also noting at this point that if you are a tenant and renting and you lose your job you are eligible for housing benefit , erm if you if you were er buying your house , although you do get some er er you get the interest I believe on your mortgage paid , there are lots of other things that do not get paid but the thing is that if you have a reduction in your income which might happen where one partner say lost a job , er you s you 're eligible for housing benefit but you get nothing as far as company paid mortgage is concerned . |
| 18 | I think it 's worth actually looking at that policy . |
| 19 | It is worth just noting about it , totting up what we 've voted to spend , |
| 20 | Furthermore , it is not possible to talk about the " type " of thing substance is without actually talking about the substance itself , for substance is by definition one , and any suggestion that there might be different specimens of it is incoherent . |
| 21 | Well , water meters proved that wrong , because what happens is , Billy is over there laughing at me , if you put a water meter in , to get that water back in the main what does it need ? |
| 22 | Seven months on , how I wish I could say that the Escort/Orion range is at least going in the right direction . |
| 23 | It 's , it 's by actually looking at , well I , in Bill and Kevin 's appraisal I actually tackled it through their appraisal because we discussed , in quite a lot of depth , erm what their workload and ways in which they could change their workload |
| 24 | It depicts the young Darwin as a lone , sporting gentleman , an amateur beetle-collector seeing nature as she really is by simply looking with the clear gaze of genius , unimpeded by any scientific training , theological prejudice , professional ambition and so on . |
| 25 | According to Rupert Sutcliffe , the most senior member of the Department , and its most pertinacious gossip , there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other . |
| 26 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 27 | For him the synthesis was asymptote towards which he was for ever approaching without ever quite reaching it ; it was a reality , incapable of complete realization . |
| 28 | He said to Lyn , " The young chap from Bale 's was in here asking for you . |
| 29 | I mean I would n't ever think it a good idea to encourage women to leave the home if they thought that their job was in there looking after small children , but it 's very obvious nowadays that a very large number of women do n't want to in the home any more . |
| 30 | He had been given a tough assignment and he was in there fighting like hell on behalf of the British vehicle division . |