Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , but I just wanted to go on to say that I think in reviewing how the budget may be brought more closely under control in the coming year , officers will need to look at the erm size of the committees because we are working with committees at the moment that are larger than those committees which used to exist when this year 's budget was set and that has had some impact and we need to have the implications of any change of committee size whether that might affect the budget , how that would affect the budget , also whether there is any potential for reducing the number of committees further and also whether the rates might be changed , I particularly would like officers to report on what , whether there would be any significant saving from er setting the rates at the round figures they were at a couple of years ago erm |
| 2 | ‘ Everything seemed to be going well and I looked like finishing well in the points when I went off , all on my own , towards the end . |
| 3 | He ignores me when he can and I co-operate by keeping out of his way , because I like the job . |
| 4 | She looks real comfy there and I think about sitting down for a bit and watching telly , but I ai n't got nothing to sit on so I just carry on standing up . |
| 5 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 6 | It would 've been easier if I got into dealing again , but I ca n't afford any more heavy scenes with the law . |
| 7 | For instance , Skipper was not impressed with my suggesting that he should stand still while I got on and wait until I asked before moving off . |
| 8 | But I rely on stocking up whenever I visit the States — I take an empty suitcase and bring it back full ’ |
| 9 | Cold day , it was me that but I think with hurrying so , quite a good walk . |
| 10 | But I agree about going underground now . |
| 11 | Because I object to paying that much for milk ! |
| 12 | I have sent for you this morning , Jones , because I find on looking up your record of attendances at police court that you have had neither a charge nor a summons during the last three years . |
| 13 | and so when I heard about taking on girls again , on the railway |
| 14 | When I returned after nipping outside , she trotted to the stairs , eyed me carefully and yapped , but not at all convincingly . |
| 15 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 16 | I gave them as long as I dared before cutting up a newsprint lorry and following them . |