Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [conj] [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't start that again , Ruth , or I 'll manually wrench your other ankle after I 've spanked your backside for suggesting that I am keeping you from your work . |
| 2 | Lee Kuan Yew 's son Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh 's post as PAP first assistant secretary-general and remained a Deputy Prime Minister ; however , he had given up the Trade and Industry portfolio in mid-November after announcing that he was undergoing treatment for cancer . |
| 3 | It is worth remembering that we are dealing with ‘ popular ’ music . |
| 4 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 5 | Well the others have made a bit , we just took it for granted that she was giving us ten per cent rise , and did n't bother , cos they trusted her , but |
| 6 | And if I had known this my justification for believing that they are playing at home would be defeated , because I also believe that they normally accept such invitations . |
| 7 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 8 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 9 | So , by the time he 'd sort of looked and it were defrosting |
| 10 | Bungle and guitarist Graham now manage to animatedly throw themselves into proceedings instead of looking like they 're queueing in a pie shop . |
| 11 | Finally Rose of Lima also had the great consolation of believing that she was doing a socially useful job — and there were not many of these available for women in the early seventeenth century . |
| 12 | Perhaps the sentence ‘ Is it raining ? ’ expresses the state of wondering whether it is raining , and the sentence ‘ Shut the window , please ’ expresses the state of wishing the hearer to shut the window . |
| 13 | A common theme in the reaction against it has been a demand for the ‘ return to justice ’ : retributive justice is seen as having the virtue of acknowledging that it is punishing ‘ responsible ’ people , which in turn requires the safeguards of individual rights and public accountability of the ‘ due process of law ’ , and the limitations on intervention in people 's lives provided by the principle of retributive proportionality . |
| 14 | Is that a nice way of saying that there 's going to be a lot of fighting , is that what they 've been planning ? |
| 15 | When his book Early Conversation Pictures appeared , Evelyn took what Henry James would have called ‘ the rash and insensate step ’ of saying that he was enjoying it . |
| 16 | ‘ I am in favour of televising because it is going down well with my constituents … the world is paying attention ’ , said Mr David Nicholson , MP for Taunton . |
| 17 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 18 | BUT IF THE CARPET IS ELGIN VELVET , YOU HAVE THE COMFORT OF KNOWING THAT YOU 'RE CHOOSING THE VERY BEST FROM STODDARD TEMPLETON , WEAVERS OF FINE CARPETS SINCE 1839 . |
| 19 | Look how easy it is — these 12 exercises will keep you feeling young and lithe , full of vitality and the satisfaction of knowing that you are taking care of your body . |
| 20 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 21 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 22 | Her alarm , it was patently obvious to her now , stemmed from a basic instinct of knowing that she was going to end up hurting inside . |
| 23 | This was because there are so many old Spanish customs within the company and rigidities of thinking which take a hell of a lot of changing when you 're talking about people . |
| 24 | Yeah I know but he did say that even though agents I 'm not giving you this and then he showed me all the things you know to sort of prove that he was doing it . |
| 25 | At the moment of writing , Labour seems to have lumbered itself with a system in which thode entitled to nominate — Labour MPs — will have no reliable means of guessing whether they are wasting their nominations on a no-hoper . |
| 26 | How can the Government conceivably justify the untruth of claiming that they are maintaining an aid programme when , according to their own figures , they have halved that provided by Labour ? |
| 27 | Only when things go wrong is the veil of privacy which normally conceals the workings of married life lifted , and usually in the hope of discovering that what is happening in one marriage is not , after all , so dissimilar from what is happening in others . |
| 28 | Unless one has data from repeated surveys across time , there is no way of telling whether one is dealing with pure age effects , pure period effects or an interaction between the two , termed generation or cohort effects . |
| 29 | That 's the whole point of repackaging that I was trying to get across this morning . |
| 30 | Sometimes , too , it is possible to make the mistake of thinking that she is expecting us to come up with all the answers when , often , all she wants is the opportunity to state the problem to someone who understands and will not criticise her . |