Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 2 | The tension which had been building up since 7am when the 400 demonstrators began gathering , boiled over as the buses arrived two hours late . |
| 3 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 4 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 5 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 6 | Stuart 's been bleating on about how I changed my name , has n't he ? |
| 7 | This , I suggest , is what has been happening up to now . ’ |
| 8 | er at the moment I was n't wanting to s s change any anything that , which is been happening up till now , I mean if people do want to come in here at weekends or late I do n't see any reason |
| 9 | Wesley and I have been looking round at just a few of the many attractions this year … |
| 10 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 11 | ‘ Where has she been living up to now ? ’ asked Mahmoud . |
| 12 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 13 | They 're hanging up over there . ’ |
| 14 | And going up to John O'Groats and right into past Castle May where the Queen Mother has and into the church where sh where the royalty goes when they 're living up in up in Castle May At er well er Johnnie Groat is buried there too . |
| 15 | They 're marking off along here , erm every square is two , say , |
| 16 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 17 | ‘ What I wish , ’ she said , ‘ is to get this visit to wherever we 're going over with as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 18 | I wonder how they 're getting on through there ? |
| 19 | You 're getting out of here . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And while you 're getting out of there , you run straight into a patrol car and they arrest you after a chase . |
| 21 | They 're coming in from everywhere . |
| 22 | Other otherwise you really wo n't know what you 're coming back to so . |
| 23 | They 're coming back in now , too , and I still think they 're good-looking basses . |
| 24 | She said oh no she says your name gone in and you 've er won a weekend in Wales I think , oh what a load of old bollocks they 're coming out with here . |
| 25 | They 're rolling up at about half past seven . |
| 26 | ‘ Come for us at home , ’ was what George had said , ‘ we 're setting off from there . |
| 27 | The mortgage market has been in the doldrums for three years and lending is shrinking steadily , partly because there is only a trickle of new customers and partly because existing customers are paying off at least part of their mortgages when they can . |
| 28 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 29 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 30 | The banks approved the first outline of the proposals in October , but detailed work on the final draft has been going on since then . |