Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pron] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some counts , a signal of distress but is attempting to solicit something but is usually what we would classify in our abstract concept of parental investment . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you going to tell me or are n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | A notable feature of the resultant controversy was that the British Medical Association , the virulent opponent of Aneurin Bevan in 1946 , was now most forceful in defending the health service , in denouncing the government for threatening its existence and failing to fund it as was properly required . |
| 4 | We 're not doing it too strongly because of course it is quite difficult to , for an English ear perhaps to get attuned to it if one was doing it very very strong , so I 'm trying to do one that is n't er too alien to an English ear . |
| 5 | By the power of his imagination he was trying to do something that was physically impossible . |