Example sentences of "be [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 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 7 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 8 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 9 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 10 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 11 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 12 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 13 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 14 | The horses are walking round in a ring then . |
| 15 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 16 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 17 | Greece and Cyprus stay hot and dry , but the Balkans and Turkey are cooling off to a nice temperature for hikers . |
| 18 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 19 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Rogers had been looking out of a window . |
| 23 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 26 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 27 | The nucleons are whirling about within a sphere of only 10 -15 m at 100 000 km per second . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 |