Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 3 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 4 | The usual south-east Londoners are hanging about the bus stop . |
| 5 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 6 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 7 | Gallimard , meanwhile , are bringing out the correspondence between Picasso and Apollinaire , a monograph on Masson by Bernard Noël , and a study of Leonardo and Titian by David Rosand , provisionally entitled La trace de l'artiste . |
| 8 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 9 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 10 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 11 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 12 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 13 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 14 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 15 | Anyone could have been looking out the window seeing them being cheap with the teddy boy . |
| 16 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 17 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 18 | Small wonder that green products , halfway genuine or frankly fake , are filling up the supermarket shelves . |
| 19 | Our eyes , legs , and even our voice act as though we are living out the dream . |
| 20 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 21 | Fundamentally , comparisons crucify Eugenius in the sense that Pavement , Mercury Rev , Unrest et al are pushing out the boat , the train and any passing planes , while Eugenius , erm , are n't . |
| 22 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 23 | We 're building up the crockery . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're bringing out the mule in me , Victor . |
| 25 | When you 're drawing up the timetable right at the beginning there is no reason why you can not fix your planning meeting dates , and stick pretty closely to them . |
| 26 | Yes , very good , we 're climbing up the league now , week by week . |
| 27 | I , I erm , I was off the west co er on a holiday to the west coast of Ireland and we erm we 're driving down the west coast and there was like some rocks and everything about , so we stopped and , you know , I looked by a rock pools or something , and there 's this and the rock pool is like mini-swimming baths , they were , you know , probably |
| 28 | As for the Multiple sclerosis sufferers at Didcot ; they believe there 's enough evidence to give credibility to their treatment , so they 're keeping up the pressure both inside and outside the chamber . |
| 29 | Lisabeth and Fenella took the left one ( ‘ Fenella , you 're steaming up the glass ! ’ ) and I took the right . |
| 30 | We 're checking out the name but nothing 's come up so far . ’ |