Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took another head punch before ducking under Elliott 's arm and turning so that they passed one another , Culley clubbing with laced fingers . |
| 2 | Here you are in an altogether different situation from Ruth Rendell writing her crime novels and saying cheerfully that she avoids errors in describing police work " by leaving it out " . |
| 3 | There was a danger of people having short memories , and forgetting even that they had taken part in the war … |
| 4 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century the whole of this load , equivalent to the weight of many railway trains , had to be carried by hemp ropes which were always shrinking and swelling , rotting and stretching so that it called for great skill to avoid the loss of some or all of the masts and spars . |
| 5 | Like a ping-pong ball he bounced from one emotion to another , knowing what he wanted but knowing also that it did not exist . |
| 6 | Every time that Sartre asserts the enveloping movement of the historical process , while adding emphatically that he has yet not proved that such a totalization exists , he must always simultaneously introduce a counterstructure of repetition , so that his argument seems to fluctuate , like the groups that he describes , ‘ in a state of perpetual detotalisation ’ ( I , 579 ) . |
| 7 | From across the kitchen Lavinia smiled at him as though to reassure him , as though stating again that he did not seem laughable . |