Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [conj] [pron] [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reminding himself that there was nothing to fear he set off , past the loose boxes with their heaps of shabby treasure . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm warning you because I 'm your friend , Tom , ’ Silver was saying . |
| 3 | And she was pulling her trolley , pushing mine and there was me toddling up there thinking , This trolleys become |
| 4 | But now tha , they 're , they 're punishing them because they 're they 're ancient ! |
| 5 | well I mean the , the agent has n't or has n't yet sued , but I was n't really putting it like that , I was asking you whether it is your case as in presently stand looking at the defence you 've raised to whether or not you have failed to perform your legal obligations under clause nine . |
| 6 | thing and you know , they were over and some of them were doing something and it is somebody you normally and the news and I said the news and actually sort of frozen and the guy said to me , he must of actually seen me frozen there , he said it 's okay , it 's okay , it 's nothing about whatever her name is , you know |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't want to get her back , disturbing her when there was nothing she could do . ’ |
| 8 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 9 | I 'd been meaning to do it for days and I keep asking myself whether it was my fault her killer got in . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm not saying anything because it 's none of my business as far as I 'm concerned |
| 11 | I mean Kevin is is helping him and he 's he 's checking a certain amount of his work but obviously he ca n't be there all the time . |
| 12 | ‘ And do n't try telling me that you 're his boss because that little toad , for a price , croaked who the complex does belong to and Enrique Armangual does n't spell Fernando Serra ! ’ |
| 13 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 14 | → Just to set your mind at rest , Phil , I 'll start by telling you that there is nothing wrong with your equipment ; the situation is definitely down to other factors . |
| 15 | All through Saturday , she worked on it , telling herself that it was none of her business . |
| 16 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |