Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the question the St John Ambulance brigade is asking as it launches its Breath of Life campaign . |
| 2 | Well yes , yes in terms it sounds mos most confusing compared with a straightforward business world but if , if , if the campaign are saying that it 's got to be this way for legal reasons they 're not prepared to accept it . |
| 3 | Well erm two families discover how the divide between north and south is narrowing and one lives at Wigan one family lives at Wigan and the other family , no er yeah the other family live at Bedford . |
| 4 | If you do not recognize that the question is implying that something has been selected , you will only answer a part and not the whole of it . |
| 5 | I become aware when parts of my body become tense and , more importantly , I know now how to ‘ relax ’ them , and when my body is saying that it has had enough I am able to leave things till tomorrow instead of insisting that they have to be done today . |
| 6 | Potential meaning is meaning as it resides in the speaker 's unconscious even when he is not speaking . |
| 7 | The sexton is complaining that he has to scrub away the unbearable smell every day , and that the church has already had to undergo several repair jobs because of the problem . |
| 8 | What a voter is saying when he gives his first-preference vote to a particular candidate of a particular party is , " I want this candidate , of this party , to be elected " . |
| 9 | His hobby is walking and he plans to take up bike riding . |
| 10 | Strictly speaking , much of this walk is trespassing since it does n't follow recognised footpaths , but the land is rough grazing and wo n't suffer from the passage of a few feet . |
| 11 | Turning points in relationships , too , are often mapped out in this way — a quarrel , a meeting , a reconciliation may mark the moment of ‘ conception ’ ; one knows that a new phase is beginning but it does not become openly apparent until this nine-month span has past . |
| 12 | ( So much so that , although I believe in God , my great difficulty is accepting that he believes in us ! ) |
| 13 | ‘ Because it 's Stone 's suffering that he wants . |
| 14 | you 've got an order form closed , right you 've got a sumter closed , where you assume that the customer 's buying cos he 's been giving you buying signals , you 're hoping |
| 15 | So it 's no wonder the 12-year-old multi-millionaire who plays Kevin McAllister in the film is smiling because he gets a cut every time a till jingles with another toy , poster or T-shirt sold . |
| 16 | My brother 's going and he does n't even like them . |
| 17 | Christmas is coming and he thinks I ought to know about some little joints called Tiffany 's and Bloomingdale 's . |