Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [conj] [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It starts raining and they rush for the car , where they have an afternoon sleep . |
| 2 | Many are able to continue living as they wish in their own homes . |
| 3 | I know people have written saying that I look like a nun , or could have been a nun , but that 's the last thing I would want to be . |
| 4 | Mrs the plaintiff 's expert thought it was quote , extremely unreasonable to expect Mr and Mrs to continue caring as they do for their daughter , unquote . |
| 5 | I recommend it not only for its excellent chapter on 17th century siege warfare , but also for the many clues it throws up en passant about where you might begin searching if you know of , or read about , a siege in your locality that is not in the book 's contents list . |
| 6 | Yeah , I 'm just gon na keep going till I land on the wedding . |
| 7 | Learning to be content is the great secret of life , for every aspect of our jobs , however boring , can become fulfilling when we work at them wholeheartedly , as serving Christ . |
| 8 | Meanwhile we should stop pretending that we live in a golden age of literary biography , an art form that all too frequently seems to be founded not so much on spite , as on a fundamental lack of interest in its subject . ’ |
| 9 | Keep going till I land on it |
| 10 | so , so keep going until you get to something that looks slightly different . |
| 11 | I keep buying after I go at half past they half a dozen |
| 12 | ‘ Keep piping till we get to the digging site . ’ |
| 13 | But in fact is a Rolls Royce a quality car if you want to go shopping and you want to be able to park it in small paces places and get round multistorey car parks ? |
| 14 | It is much easier for Amnesty to help members to do more specialised campaigning if they belong to a group — in particular , we have systems for providing group members with training , and for getting feedback from them — but there may be new types of groups we could develop , and even ways of offering more personalised approaches to campaigning to individual members . |
| 15 | My own specialism in Europe is Italy and er believe you me , although Italian politics is a terrific mess , you ca n't help finding when you look at It Italian the Italian scene at the moment , some of the decadence and decay of one party rule in this country . |