Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such talk can be given meaning only if a James-type account is accepted . |
| 2 | In turn , Woodie , Willis , Nenna , Maurice and even his visitors could be heard coughing uncontrollably . |
| 3 | Sometimes they can be heard bellowing far away on the shoreline in very great numbers . |
| 4 | Beyond the door , Mother Bombie 's feet in soft felt slippers could be heard slapping angrily down the stairs . |
| 5 | Around eight o'clock the sound of distant brass bands can again be heard wafting in through the bedroom windows . |
| 6 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 7 | The train could now be heard coming up the bank . |
| 8 | Despite all the hype , hate and hysteria that has gone before , something magical and mysterious can still be heard shuffling around in the dark , and this celebration is the spotlight that picks it out . |
| 9 | A few months ago , even the gruffest company bosses could be heard enthusing over jazzy Department of Employment leaflets . |
| 10 | Sheridan Lorrimore could be heard saying furiously and fortissimo to his father , ‘ How the hell could I know they were acting ? |
| 11 | An old sea captain , veteran of the battle of Trafalgar , and he has a wooden leg and he can be heard stumping about in October , round about the anniversary of the battle . |
| 12 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 13 | In addition , improved therapeutic agents with more specific and controlled effects on platelet metabolism may be developed allowing more effective intervention . |
| 14 | The model can be developed showing more than one level , as in Figure 4.22 and further , by having more than one type of record at a particular level , as in Figure 4.23 . |
| 15 | The Conservative Party must never be caught dozing again . |
| 16 | This was no kind of place to be caught reading in : a macho gay bar in a five-fathom basement somewhere beneath the charred East Twenties . |
| 17 | The 4013 i.c. contains two independent bistables so a 2-bit latch may be made using only one chip . |
| 18 | The selection of Windsor chairs at the Chair Museum in High Wycombe provided inspiration for Jonathan Chappell 's lath-back version , which , he explains , can be made using only a lathe , bandsaw and hand-tools |
| 19 | Fujitsu recently showed that 64-megabit DRAMs could be made using fairly conventional lithographic equipment , based on ultra-violet light rather than exotic lasers or X-rays . |
| 20 | There 's still money to be made producing more efficient and sophisticated solutions than the ones Microsoft provides . |
| 21 | Even though there was a sharp frost outside , couples could be seen stealing away from the dance and returning a half-hour or so later , always a little crestfallen until they had danced again , danced their way back into good cheer . |
| 22 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |
| 23 | Though officers of the Eladeldi can be seen patrolling everywhere , pleasure is the only master . |
| 24 | About now , the first Hooray of spring can be seen stepping gingerly out of The Admiral Codrington and standing with his G 'n' T in the middle of the road . |
| 25 | Girls could be seen riding slowly past with one hand on the handlebars , the other full of books which they were taking home after the morning 's lessons . |
| 26 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 27 | ‘ Someone 's got to be seen eating here , ’ he hissed . |
| 28 | The women were to be seen hanging around in the yard talking quietly or trying to wash to get a few more rags to the pawnshop . |
| 29 | Later on in the day he will be seen hanging unfeasibly heavy weights from various parts of his anatomy , in a freak show where fainting is considered a standing ovation . |
| 30 | If a hawk flies over or a snake appears , he lets the young hop up under his wing and lifts them off the lily pads so that only their legs can be seen hanging down . |