Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [v-ing] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think we should be setting up things like video libraries and that sort of thing to help our members , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The legal system should be stamping out vigilantes , not encouraging them . |
| 3 | If you are undertaking an elimination diet , you should be cutting out tea , coffee , alcohol and sugar anyway . |
| 4 | A firm of their size must be pouring out cheques all the time , for wages , office bills , all its normal business . |
| 5 | I think you might be mixing up Wetherall and Newsome . |
| 6 | Right I might be going up Parsons tomorrow or Wednesday I do n't know , so did you want anything up there ? |
| 7 | They 'll be belting out bits of the Messiah and I should go mad . ’ |
| 8 | The interface is smooth and once you get used to the system you 'll be throwing out orders and manipulating huge military formations at will . |
| 9 | I 'm going to shape the right side of the neck first , so I 'll be knitting over needles 0 to 60 on the right of the machine . |
| 10 | ‘ In an hour I 'll be passing out drinks . ’ |
| 11 | I says do you think you 'll be setting up home together next , he said I do n't know , maybe , it 's a big step is n't it ? |
| 12 | ‘ I can only assume they either think he 'll be too busy with other matters or that he 'll be stirring up trouble . |
| 13 | It 's such a waste of time when they could be tracking down criminals amount of time . |
| 14 | I must want my head tested sorting mail all day when I could be picking up wads of it on the lorries . ’ |
| 15 | So quite large areas of your spreadsheet could be using up memory unnecessarily . |
| 16 | Myeloski was beginning to realize that he could be taking on forces that encompassed the very people who ran the Soviet Union , the powermasters who employed him to keep the peace as a police officer . |
| 17 | In America we 'd be holding out banners for them in the streets of their home town . |
| 18 | It 's lucky I was sent here , to Hepzibah , or I 'd be pushing up daisies . |
| 19 | Also Mackie would be coming with us and we 'd be picking up Fiona . |
| 20 | Smokers may be storing up disease for their unborn children , according to the latest research . |
| 21 | Simultaneously , you may be fending off criticism from a friend or relative who feels |
| 22 | Objections to the proposals essentially turn on the terms under which any devolution would take place , and the question of the competence and reliability of the organisations which would be taking on responsibility for the sites . |
| 23 | They would be sending out radiation and particles at a steady rate . |
| 24 | Some day , she supposed , Fen would be setting up home there with his girlfriend , and the less she knew about the interior of Chimneys the less material her jealous imagination would have to fester upon . |
| 25 | Bunny , with his clarinet , had a sort of roving commission , which in his case meant roving among the three promo girls dressed in red mini skirts , fake fur jackets and hoods , black fishnet tights and white boots , who would be dishing out leaflets advertising the shops . |
| 26 | Many of the people who come under the first proposal would be paying back loans for educational purposes . |
| 27 | what other types of folk would be coming up Glen Ayloch |
| 28 | At least it 's worth a celebration cigar and not just for Arthur Daley , Britain 's beat known comedy Crook , but for the man who 's played him in the Minder series George Cole , although he reckons Arthur would be knocking out replicas already . |
| 29 | Dog foxes will be seeking out vixens , and associating closely with last year 's partner . |
| 30 | His younger brother Ashok , a film producer in his own right , has formed an alliance with movie star Jean Claude Van Damme and will be churning out action movies like Double Impact . |