Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me now take the propositions in order , examine them individually , and then indicate how , in my opinion , the employers came to be talking this kind of tripe . |
| 2 | Polls suggested that the key election issue for voters , however , was the 8,000 or so homeless people estimated to be sleeping rough within the city . |
| 3 | You seemed to be sinking lower and lower . |
| 4 | In this one , a frenzied crowd seemed to be dismantling two locomotives made of rubber . |
| 5 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 6 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
| 7 | Further along the bay , it seemed to be taking five flunkeys in grey uniforms a lot of effort to usher one middle-aged man into a chauffeur-driven Bentley . |
| 8 | The questions she had feared earlier seemed to be taking physical shape in the shadowy corners of the room , phantoms waiting to trap her if she dropped her guard for so much as a second . |
| 9 | Past and present seemed to be animating each other in almost an Eliotic manner . |
| 10 | He considered this , or seemed to be considering this . |
| 11 | We seemed to be peeing more than we could possibly have drunk . |
| 12 | Her headache seemed to be getting worse and worse , and Raffaella 's command of English slipped as she grew increasingly excited . |
| 13 | Her heels felt sore , and because there was so much walking , they seemed to be getting worse as the morning went on . |
| 14 | Things seemed to be getting worse with every step she took . |
| 15 | It was a long way to sunset , but the air in the tower seemed to be getting colder by the moment . |
| 16 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 17 | Michael was livid that Hemmings , in the cloakrooms , seemed to be getting all the way with one of the girls while Crawford/Ingram was off in a corner with another girl — ‘ simply practising how long we could kiss ’ . ’ |
| 18 | The streets seemed to be getting narrower , the houses taller . |
| 19 | What made everything worse , Miranda decided , was that while she grew more and more despondent , Grace seemed to be getting happier and happier . |
| 20 | The stairs seemed to be getting steeper and more numerous . |
| 21 | There was a long silence , broken only by the perpetual nudging of the wind , which seemed to be getting stronger all the time . |
| 22 | Yet the yawning emptiness out here upon the vast deck already seemed to be swallowing any sense of connexion with the interior of the fortress-monastery … |
| 23 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |
| 24 | I said of course you were deep in domesticity and waiting for the baby and she said that was what so many good students seemed to be choosing these days … " |
| 25 | We could show when design decisions were forced by that architecture , and when the systems seemed to be facing common problems . |
| 26 | Three rows of tiny figures circled a Navaho basket , holding hands forever in the weave ; black squares for heads , so that they seemed to be facing inward to preserve the sanctity of the dance . |
| 27 | Werewolf and I were numbers three and four in the queue and the Sergeant had to tap his watch a couple of times as Werewolf seemed to be requiring more help than the rest of us from Private Boyd in getting his belt on . |
| 28 | Lady Roscarrock seemed to be containing some inner pressure that was about to erupt . |
| 29 | Werewolf seemed to be conducting some sort of slaughter out there . |
| 30 | They seemed to be dropping hundreds of metres , unfolding their wings , then rising with the air currents into the upper atmosphere . |