Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 2 | They have , they will be drawing back on most things . |
| 3 | The voucher holders , who also hold a gold card , will be queueing up at Roker Park for their tickets throughout this week . |
| 4 | ‘ The stalwarts will be queueing up for their jog round the deck . ’ |
| 5 | Marilyn has worked with Douglas Reyburn for just over a year as time keeper , but because of her clerical skills will also be helping out in the office when leave is taken by others . |
| 6 | Your supposed to be sticking up for me love ! |
| 7 | was tut-tutting that we should n't be using out of er Stansted airport , they should be jets |
| 8 | Frightened as much by her own emotional weakness as by the almost dangerous , threatening atmosphere which seemed to be building up between them , she was beginning to feel like some poor rabbit caught in a trap . |
| 9 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 10 | Phrase by phrase , syllable by syllable , a bewitchment seemed to be building up round Adam ; Ruth almost thought he shone with his own light now , like a flame . |
| 11 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 12 | But the Tories have been quick to draw comfort from the latest figures , pointing out that the underlying trend showed that the rate of increase appeared to be levelling off in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 13 | One buck gets you ten that he 'll be eating out of your hand by the second beer . ’ |
| 14 | With our guide at the ready , every Hooray Triumphus in the land will soon be eating out of your hand . |
| 15 | And I used to carry out their meals to the men , and they used to be eating out in the field then . |
| 16 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 17 | Little waves of lightning seemed to be flashing out of her eyes . |
| 18 | At school , aged fourteen , I was only just starting to trim the fur off my jaw while some of the Spanish or Arab boys would be tucking in with razor and foam . |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ Ashley said , beginning to feel flustered by what seemed to be shaping up into another interrogation . |
| 20 | Without pilots gaining experience at the lowest level , we will be shaping up for another chronic pilots shortage in a few years ' time . |
| 21 | Without bacteria , moulds and fungi , we would all be wading around in undecayed vegetation many miles deep . |
| 22 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 23 | But while County are tipped to go up this time , Francis could be stepping on to a bigger stage before next spring . |
| 24 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Marry Doreen and you 'll be stepping out of the frying pan into the fire , as the saying goes . ’ |
| 27 | You are the lucky winners of our July competition and will soon be stepping out in style with a pair of great fabric boots from Line 7 . |
| 28 | I 'll be catching up on the progress of our women in management . |
| 29 | In two or three years Luis , Patricio and Lorenzo would be catching up with Miguel 's cousins , and by this time Miguel , who drank and ate too much , might well be over the top . |
| 30 | All those nights when she had n't been able to sleep seemed to be catching up with her . |