Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 2 | I put his age at forty , but even among men twenty years younger he would have been accounted handsome , and he knew it , for his expression showed both confidence and amusement as he continued to hold Ellen 's hand , and he showed even more amusement when she suddenly realised just what liberty she was thus granting him and jerked her fingers swiftly away . |
| 3 | gon na pick up cheap pickings , they 're gon na go round like the vultures , just taking it and taking it |
| 4 | I said , it hurt the captain because we 've been used to you know , ferrying everybody about , and I said , do n't d say that people are unkind because they they 're not taking you and carrying you about . |
| 5 | Maybe love was just fancying someone and liking them a lot at the same time . |
| 6 | ‘ You are supposed to be suppressing dust , McAllister , not raising it and spreading it about , ’ he said cheerfully to her back . |
| 7 | She was still kissing me and kneading my leg skilfully . |
| 8 | Of their own inclination the people will not apparently leave the place … they prefer to stay on , meeting calls upon them by small accommodation bills , thus gradually impoverishing themselves and making their prospects cheerless . ’ |
| 9 | People are always niggling me and teasing me for doing too much work , going into too many details for even the smallest conference . |
| 10 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
| 11 | And there is also irony in the way Pip treated Magwitch ; loathing him and not bearing to touch him and ending up loving him and holding his hand in court . |
| 12 | I was tired but I kept on doing it and doing it ; they asked me to stop but I would n't . |
| 13 | I wrote back thanking him and assuring him that there were no hard feelings on my part , but my decision is unchanged . |
| 14 | Suddenly , he had turned to look at her — simultaneously surprising her and proving her theory . |
| 15 | Even forgiving her and cleansing her was not enough because tomorrow 's another day , tomorrow 's got it 's temptations and wonderful though forgiveness is I need more than just being forgiven . |
| 16 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 17 | Meeting us where we are , meeting as in our needs there , and then changing us and sending us out as his followers , with his message sharing , that 's all this woman did , simply sharing what God , in Christ had done for her . |
| 18 | Because there are no definite growing seasons in the tropics , trees do n't have rings ; so without actually watching them and measuring them grow , it 's impossible to date them . |