Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he agree that the fact that so many parts of the country are queueing up for ESA status is a tribute to him and to the usefulness of such areas ? |
| 2 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 3 | Something approaching a personal crisis had been building up since Nietzsche 's return from the unforgettable distress of war . |
| 4 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 5 | I am catching up on George Orwell , too , and reading Solzhenitsyn . |
| 6 | They are catching up on Daedalus and he will have to go into strict training for a swifter sprint . |
| 7 | SIXTYSOMETHING : Grey hair and wrinkles are catching up with Clint but the Hollywood giant is not ready for the bus pass yet LEAPING WITH LIFE : Clint takes pride in the fact that he still does most of his own stunts |
| 8 | His South African challenger 's been training in London , Bruno' been limbering up in Leicestershire . |
| 9 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 10 | I have been banging on about South German wheat beers for years , and I am delighted to see that they are becoming more easily available in Britain . |
| 11 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 12 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 13 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 14 | I am driving over from Merseyside , so if the lad from Warrington is reading this , perhaps he 'd like to cadge a lift . |
| 15 | ‘ You are a right dickhead — ’ I broke it to him gently — ‘ if you think we are driving down to Brixton in that . ’ |
| 16 | come home from work she said I 've been looking round in Boots and that for you , she said er I 've decided , she said I was gon na get you a gift voucher . |
| 17 | Critics are ganging up on Azharuddin |
| 18 | ‘ Someone 's been splashing out at Woolworths , ’ said O'Hara , tapping with his hook at the pearls . |
| 19 | In 1940 U.556 had been fitting out at Hamburg at the same quay as the Bismarck and in return for borrowing Bismarck 's band for her commissioning ceremony , Wohlfarth , who was a skilled cartoonist , prepared a document , charred at the edges to show its age , whereby U.556 would ‘ adopt ’ Bismarck ( as towns in Germany and England then were adopting warships ) and protect her from harm in all the oceans , seas , lakes , ponds , puddles of the world . |
| 20 | ‘ But if you 're goin' in with Rico ? ’ |
| 21 | The issue of January 29 , 1972 offered readers a taster of the future in the shape of a small box proclaiming ‘ We 're Freaking Out At NME ’ and hinting arcanely at big changes afoot . |
| 22 | Or else if you 're driving up to Stranraer it 's a , it 's a good three and half hours ' drive plus your petrol . |
| 23 | So you 're driving back from Nottingham |
| 24 | tonight we 're meeting up with Gloucester rugby club 's first full time director of coaching … he 's Barrie Corless … a player with Moseley … |
| 25 | We 're ganging up on Alan . |
| 26 | ‘ If you 're going on to Matson , you might find a bit of it useful . |
| 27 | No yeah , yeah oh yeah , very good , oh yeah I 'm sure you are , jolly good , mm , yeah , fine and there 's some , Paul off half term of course , yeah , yeah oh is he oh very good oh of course you 're going up to Cardiff are n't you ? |
| 28 | yeah you can phone your mum , just say you 're going up to Kilburn |
| 29 | If you 're going up to London after dinner let us know . |
| 30 | We 're going over to Michael three months of the year and there was air fare to find and there was holiday money , cos we used to go away with Michael and er so we did n't have a car of our own . |