Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sidled into the room , scarcely daring to breathe lest I harm the recording . |
| 2 | I was just looking to see if he 'd got his list somewhere . |
| 3 | I was just going to ask if we have a diary ? |
| 4 | ‘ That 's right , we were just going to pack but we got waylaid . ’ |
| 5 | I was just trying to remember whether they did Joan 's do at the last year . |
| 6 | I mean how do they I 'm just trying to remember because I remember |
| 7 | So far as Richard was concerned if his father was eventually going to insist that he give up his conquests then it was at least possible that he would get better terms if he approached Philip directly and offered to abide by the judgement of the French court . |
| 8 | She crept downstairs , remembering to avoid the creaking step , and padded softly across the living-room floor , hardly daring to breathe as she opened the front door . |
| 9 | ‘ Hey , I 'm still waiting to see if you tell anyone . ’ |
| 10 | LLANIDLOES Town are still waiting to hear whether they have been officially relegated from the Konica League of Wales . |
| 11 | And £1.5m-rated midfielder Gary Owers is still waiting to discover whether he needs surgery on a troublesome groin injury . |
| 12 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 13 | She looked at him in enquiry , rapidly changing to alarm as he asked curtly if she was Miss Adams and , barely waiting for her nod , pushed his way into her small hall , slamming the door behind him . |
| 14 | One second I 'll come to you , we 've got more talking to do before I do come to you . |
| 15 | The afternoon was becoming silly and we were now beginning to wish that he had dumped the carp rods sooner . |
| 16 | Such evidence is now beginning to appear and I believe that my hon. Friends and I will be proved to have been right all along in our predictions of the effect of the student loan scheme . |
| 17 | Statistically , half of them are women , and that third of the world 's population is only now beginning to feel that they have a say in the running of their lives . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm simply calling to see if there have been any developments . ’ |
| 19 | She was even beginning to wonder if she 'd really been in love with Hugh — properly in love . |
| 20 | He was beginning to form a picture of the murderer and even beginning to wonder if he had a match . |
| 21 | People are increasingly coming to think that we want an answer which can be simulated on a computer . |
| 22 | I am simply trying to suggest that we do our best to ensure they report it accurately . |
| 23 | But the sight of Elise 's work , hanging in Luke 's house , had caught her unawares , underlining her loss and , at the same time , reminding her that on the only occasion when Elise 's name had been mentioned Luke had adopted an attitude of total indifference , not even bothering to mention that he owned one of Elise 's paintings . |
| 24 | When she came out I stood there waiting to see if she noticed anything but she did n't seem to . |
| 25 | The petition your correspondent mentioned ( while conveniently omitting to mention that it contained the signatures of 179 concerned parents ) was crucial to that meeting taking place . |
| 26 | When his form is good , he straight drives with awesome certainty , barely bothering to run as he knows his timing has ensured a boundary . |
| 27 | When his form is good , he straight drives with awesome certainty , barely bothering to run as he knows his timing has ensured a boundary . |
| 28 | I 'm actually going to recommend that you regard these things as codes , and that you only put twelve of these actually into your active binder and put the other fourteen in a storage binder as spares . |
| 29 | John MacEwen said he 'd follow me in his pick-up , and that the journey would probably kill him , but it was a chance I had to take , he was definitely going to die if I left him there . |
| 30 | I thought she was never going to stop until I heard a woman say , ‘ I see 'er 's still showin' off . ’ |