Example sentences of "to [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , so I 've never seen Kurt look quite that pale before , and I 'm not sure it 's such a good idea for Courtney to be zipping about with Kurt on that hired motorbike while seven months pregnant but , hell , it 's not as if anyone 's dead . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 4 | Now it claims to be receiving up to ten a week , with Glasgow and Yorkshire emerging as illegal software hot spots . |
| 5 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 6 | TVS is rumoured to be teaming up with Carlton Communications ( a video distributor ) , Canal Plus ( a French cable-TV company ) , and the Compagnie Générale des Eaux ( a utility with various media holdings ) . |
| 7 | At last she seemed to be getting through to him . |
| 8 | This time we have by no means exhausted the resources of invention , but these possibilities contain perhaps enough plausibility to be getting on with . |
| 9 | Some of us have work to be getting on with . ’ |
| 10 | Now , I have much to be getting on with and would appreciate your not following me about and interrupting me like this . |
| 11 | You know — unrequited love , more unrequited love , and a bit of rampant lust to be getting on with . |
| 12 | Suddenly , a wave of tiredness swept through her and she closed her eyes for a moment , during which the girl remained quiet , but visibly agitated and eager to be getting on with her work . |
| 13 | This was enough for Cassie to be getting on with , but soon another of her private fantasies was to be shattered . |
| 14 | But Teddy Hargreaves will do to be getting on with . ’ |
| 15 | Left materials plus work to be getting on with next week . |
| 16 | ‘ It was such a cold day , ’ said Ianthe , ‘ and you 're not allowed to eat in the Public Record Office , so I thought just for once … = ’ She stopped , feeling that too much attention was being drawn to her and that they ought to be getting on with their work , especially as the Ash Wednesday service had made them late coming back from lunch . |
| 17 | I just thought you had enough to be getting on with , what with Jennifer . |
| 18 | to be getting on with it . |
| 19 | we only now seem to be getting round to recognising it . |
| 20 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 21 | to be getting back on her feet alright . |
| 22 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 23 | His father , Keith , said : ‘ He was in terrible shock for a while but he seems to be getting back to his normal self . ’ |
| 24 | Where it is seen by work colleagues to be getting out of kilter , informal controls can be used to restore equilibrium . |
| 25 | When it seemed to be getting out of hand , he insisted that its aim was to improve the system , not to change it . |
| 26 | Live well with all creatures is an apt dictum for today , because we seem as humans to be getting out of balance with the rest of the world 's occupants . |
| 27 | What is alarming , however , is that the whole system appears to be getting out of balance . |
| 28 | That 's my ambition to be roaring in against the Aussies next year . |
| 29 | Gentlemen , it occurs to us that you 're going , we 're going to be waffling on for half an hour plus , in a sense . |
| 30 | ‘ The Archbishop seems to be harking back to the politics of guilt and the socialist faddism of yesteryear . ’ |