Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training .
2 Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train .
3 The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team .
4 You may sense that your words are tumbling out into a kind of void .
5 Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham .
6 The horses are walking round in a ring then .
7 The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution .
8 Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try .
9 Greece and Cyprus stay hot and dry , but the Balkans and Turkey are cooling off to a nice temperature for hikers .
10 They are mopping up in a southerly direction .
11 Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 .
12 On Friday George Tinsley and John Warnock , of The North Yorkshire Brewing Company , are jetting off to a trade fair in Tokyo to promote the pride and joy of Teesside 's real ale enthusiasts .
13 For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner .
14 The nucleons are whirling about within a sphere of only 10 -15 m at 100 000 km per second .
15 Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’
16 Obviously it is not to be encouraged when you 're walking along with a bird on your glove , because the first thing that happens is the bird takes off .
17 But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally .
18 our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature
19 And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis .
20 Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back .
21 Er , yes , Mr Chairman , nationally it is going down , locally we 're , we 're going along on a plateau , erm , and in some areas it is actually go the incidence is going up , but this is basically like Scotland where they have n't got many anyway .
22 Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’
23 Now they 're going back to a sensitive area .
24 Now they 're going back to a sensitive area .
25 We 're going back to a kind of rating system with the different assessment on valuations
26 and she said that 's just not the way it 's done , so she she saying to him now , if you da if you wet yourself once more you 're going back in a nappy .
27 Right we 're going down in a minute , yeah .
28 I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set .
29 Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ?
30 Underarm deodorant to make us smell nice when we 're going out to a party ?
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