Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waco : CULT leader David Koresh may be drawing out the 34-day stand-off with federal agents so it ends on a religious holiday and fulfils his prophecies , the FBI said . |
| 2 | The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future . |
| 3 | But you will be building up a useful nest egg and wo n't have to pay either capital gains or income tax on the money you get back . |
| 4 | We do know however that , with perseverance , every day can produce some success and that , by continuing to work one day at a time , we will be building up a very solid basis for renewed confidence and further achievement . |
| 5 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 6 | He said you 'd ne , I used to say to you get on with your work he said and you 'd have a pencil in your mouth he said and you 'd be gazing out the window . |
| 7 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 8 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |
| 9 | ‘ If I did , ’ Mandeville snapped , ‘ the murderer would be hanging on the gibbet at Smithfield ! ’ |
| 10 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 11 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
| 12 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
| 13 | Secretary of State for giving way , but when he made his proni provisional announcement on the er on the total S S A for Wales , was he aware that the er the various er salary review bodies would be bringing in a er a recommendation which was almost twice the current rate of inflation ? |
| 14 | Ford rumoured to be bringing out a new Capri — a nation quakes |
| 15 | Under licence from Chorus it will be bringing out a product based on the System V 3.2/Intel technology of Chorus Mix so it can pursue the real-time and telecomms business that has been slipping through its fingers . |
| 16 | I shall be bringing out a very large book on all aspects of marines in the latter half of this year , so keep an eye out for it . |
| 17 | From Thursday onwards , the influence of Venus will be bringing out the artistic side of you . |
| 18 | In the spring , the same publisher will be bringing out the Mémoires of Charles Perrault , unobtainable since first published in 1906 , with an introduction by Antoine Picon . |
| 19 | In the meantime , the band themselves will be pressing up a limited edition single in December for their two Irish dates in Dublin and Belfast . |
| 20 | And if Liz does steer the fastest line , she 'll be keeping up a recent Oxford tradition . |
| 21 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 22 | But we will be keeping up the pressure . ’ |
| 23 | Will you be under huge pressures or will you be winding down a bit by then ? |
| 24 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 25 | I honestly do n't think that the public walking past the building will actually notice very much , except that in the foyer , they 're going to be knocking down the sort of glass partition , so you , people will see that a little bit is going on . |
| 26 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 27 | If you do seem to be walking around a lot during meal preparations try to count the number of times you walk to various work areas and even the number of steps you take . |
| 28 | Lynne plans to marry her fiancee Martin Keene next year — she says she 's determined she 'll be walking down the aisle . |
| 29 | Erm , I 've been thinking that I ca n't chair this meeting and take the notes and things when it becomes , and if it , the fund comes through and it becomes the audio description project as opposed to this group , and you know we will be widening out a little bit , I wonder if we should actually have a chairman type person . |
| 30 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |