Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this short note cruelly dashed his hopes : the mysterious writer apologised for not meeting him but asked him to wait amongst the ancient ruins to the north-west of the Tower . |
| 2 | People own masses of land , not developing it or working it . |
| 3 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 4 | This may mean returning it to the dealer or manufacturer , but certainly not incinerating it or throwing it out with other household waste that ends up in a shallow landfill . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | gon na pick up cheap pickings , they 're gon na go round like the vultures , just taking it and taking it |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was not manipulating them or elevating them artificially , so much as attempting to support talent to reach its natural level . ’ |
| 9 | They 're not showing theirs or using it for any other purpose just for the dog 's benefit . |
| 10 | It 's not entertaining us or making us feel comfortable . |
| 11 | If you are not receiving it but believe you should be doing so , you should write to your local tax office ( see under Inland Revenue in the telephone directory ) stating your age and , if married , that of your partner . |
| 12 | ‘ You are supposed to be suppressing dust , McAllister , not raising it and spreading it about , ’ he said cheerfully to her back . |
| 13 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 14 | She was still kissing me and kneading my leg skilfully . |
| 15 | People are always niggling me and teasing me for doing too much work , going into too many details for even the smallest conference . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I was tired but I kept on doing it and doing it ; they asked me to stop but I would n't . |
| 19 | I wrote back thanking him and assuring him that there were no hard feelings on my part , but my decision is unchanged . |
| 20 | Suddenly , he had turned to look at her — simultaneously surprising her and proving her theory . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's a good guess , ’ she said , neither denying it nor confirming it . |
| 25 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 26 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 27 | 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 . |