Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ankle is badly swollen and he is struggling for the weekend . ’ |
| 2 | And besides , although the owner of the Rose Bowl presumably realised that she was receiving almost as many flowers as she sold , Folly was fairly sure that Lisa knew nothing of her relationship with Luke Hunter . |
| 3 | Keith takes this further : ‘ We were a little limited when we were recording the guitars , limited by the size of the room and the fact that some of the gear was n't working properly , so obstructive forces were at work and this is where compromise comes in ; you 're spending all this time when you know it could be a lot better . ’ |
| 4 | Hsu 's monograph suffers from the converse limitation ; the author expressly claimed that he was studying members of his own society but , by the ordinary criteria used by social anthropologists , he was not doing an ) " thing of the sort . |
| 5 | Nutmeg suddenly realised that he was looking at himself ! |
| 6 | ‘ I was , ’ she retorted , but swiftly realised that she was doing Cara no favours by snapping in retaliation , and bit back the ‘ but you were n't ’ which begged to be allowed to follow . |
| 7 | Many years ago I was taking notes in a legal matter and only realised when I was transcribing them that police commissioner and police constable have the same initials . |
| 8 | Referring to a comrade of her son 's , she wrote : ‘ This boy and mine were together all through the African war and only separated when they were preparing for France . |
| 9 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 10 | ‘ But it has not only suffered when he is playing — his whole confidence in life has been affected . |
| 11 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 12 | This is why there is equal acceptability in the sentences of ( 50 ) and ( 51 ) , despite the fact that there was a difference of grammatical status between ( 48 ) and ( 49 ) : ( 50 ) a possible result would be the collapse of the whole company such a result is possible ( 51 ) his occasional visits annoyed my brother his visits were only occasional Similarly , ( 52 ) and ( 53 ) are both admissible , but only provided that we are talking about the age of the institution and the accuracy of the narrative , respectively : ( 52 ) Charlie 's school is old ( 53 ) my story is surprising but true |
| 13 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 14 | The next day Shamir pointedly announced that he was receiving large offers of money from Jews around the world . |
| 15 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 16 | We 've all read that it 's going on . |
| 17 | My children will have already guessed that I am referring to a brandade . |
| 18 | In the end I went to the police and found that she 'd just reported that he was missing . ’ |
| 19 | It was later generally accepted that he was suffering from multiple neurofibromatosis ( von Recklinghausen 's disease ) , a very rare and incurable disease characterized by the tendency to form neurofibromas ( tumours of the nerve and fibrous tissue ) . |
| 20 | At fifteen Deborah has a short story published in a collection and hopes to be a writer ; we had already met whilst I was working on another book . |
| 21 | God , we 've only just met and you 're coming on like some rampant nut-eater . |
| 22 | Monsieur Mitterand has already said that he 's going to seek to drive a harder bargain with Britain over fishing limits even than President Giscard was trying to do , and I think our negotiators must expect a rather tough time as far as fisheries are concerned . |
| 23 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 24 | Gould 's nominations were more broadly based and he is gaining momentum by contesting the two posts at once . |
| 25 | On the way to our initial meeting I had to change trains , and soon found that I was travelling in the wrong direction . |
| 26 | It was generally believed that they were proposing to seek an electoral pact with the Conservatives , so as to ensure that they would hold their seats against what was expected to be a Conservative landslide at the next general election . |
| 27 | Suddenly , as his hands closed over her breasts , she realised that the black lace jacket of her suit was somehow unbuttoned and he was tugging down the lacy bra cups , whispering hotly against her naked throat , and as his head moved lower and his mouth closed hotly over her erect nipples she twisted beneath him , moaning , clutching his dark head as she felt his teeth graze her with agonising pleasure . |
| 28 | , I 've already asked if he 's coming |
| 29 | Mr Bryan Gould , the party 's environment spokesman , has already announced that he is standing for both the leadership and deputy leadership . |
| 30 | Chrysler has already announced that it is teaming up with Renault of France to build a $400m to $500m plant in Europe to produce the JJ - a four-wheel drive Jeep-type vehicle . |