Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps .
2 We are drawing up another list which includes ICL and Sun . ’
3 The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion .
4 Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week .
5 Tension 's been building up all week .
6 ‘ We 've been walking around all night .
7 We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts .
8 Although things are looking up this year , operating profits in 1990 fell to $201.3m compared with $266.1m in the previous year .
9 The housing tenure variables which are picking up any supply side effects on the offer probabilities via mobility effects have the expected signs but most are insignificant .
10 In this case , the shareholders are passing off some risk on to the manager .
11 That was the last , , I should have been market trader , been shouting out that voice and
12 You are more independent , you 're contributing , not only helping and doing in the home but you 're bringing in some money as well .
13 you 're bringing back that car .
14 They ai n't you wan na be careful when you 're walking down that park it 's
15 Should never reverse unless you 're looking out that back window !
16 If you 're going up that house on Friday afternoon .
17 He said , Look up there , and you 'll see a crane , he says , We 're going up that ladder .
18 You did n't say that , you 're going up this time if you wanted that .
19 ‘ Well , if it 's any consolation we 're going back this afternoon to have another go . ’
20 And then , well if you 're going out that way you take all this washing up .
21 Watch out if you live in and around Newark or you 're heading out that way , you must get one of their brochures .
22 I wish you 'd ring in when you 're staying out all night , you know you 've said you will . ’
23 ‘ If they 're running about all day in the fresh air , that 'll make them hungry , I should think ! ’
24 Cos I mean if you look at it , you 're laying down all night and relax , do you see what I mean ?
25 The birds are marking up that window there !
26 ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it .
27 We are rushing out this newsletter in time for the first summer festival , at Kings Heath Park .
28 I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him .
29 The Old Stager was on to a theme which he had clearly been bottling up all season .
30 ‘ I myself am flying out this evening with my wife to join the IMP team . ’
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