Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was singing aloud as she skipped when suddenly and unexpectedly her rope was fouled by something and nearly tripped her up . |
| 2 | In fact , she was on the point of reining in when she saw that Beador had come to rest on the top of the trunk ; he stood there , poised like a trick rider in a circus . |
| 3 | He was on the point of returning downstairs when he noticed that the door to the rare book section was not quite closed . |
| 4 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 5 | To prevent the procession amounted to saying ‘ that a man may be punished for acting lawfully if he knows that his so doing may induce another man to act unlawfully — a proposition without any authority whatever to support it ’ . |
| 6 | They would be cooked into a greasy stew with vegetables and served up looking exactly as they did when they were raw : pale and nauseatingly realistic , with the toes and claws intact . |
| 7 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 8 | Oh I 'm sorry there are children shouting out and you know that you do n't do that . |
| 9 | Mrs Singh seemed to be listening intently but I guess that a lot of what was being said went over her head . |
| 10 | I do n't know how long I lay there , pushing , relaxing , pushing again as I gasped and groaned and the sweat ran steadily down my beck . |
| 11 | been looking forward when I come and |
| 12 | You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick . |
| 13 | Well , I think it erm , very , I mean I think as you said Chairman , if erm , there 's a clear majority for one party it 'll unblock a whole lot of delay and decision making which I think is going on and I think that that should be helpful . |
| 14 | And the final thing on three two er the question of how far I know this has not been asked today I do n't people with er three or four page briefing get the summary I do think that the sort of and there 's a great deal of voluntary activity going on and I think if we can support that , that would , be that would be great . |
| 15 | I had n't really thought about it , it 's erm it all depends on what farm I 'm going on cos I 've or erm cows an , cows and bullocks , you know . |
| 16 | He was distantly disappointed ; she had seemed shy of him recently and he had missed her , chattering away while they walked or just sitting beside him , quiet and undemanding in the garden . |
| 17 | I do n't want you going just because you think that it will please us — Hans and me . |
| 18 | Five 15-year-old girls and I sat clattering away while they giggled and nudged each other . |
| 19 | ‘ Thank you-I 'll go and see , ’ said Ianthe , hurrying away when she realised that the television programme was starting again . |
| 20 | yes , now do n't say do n't , yeah that 's right just do n't forget that we are , actually still going up and it means that we 're , erm , but we 're out of it , but we 're coming out slowly , we 're technically out , if you put technically you 'll get a pass |
| 21 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 22 | They swept out , Charity enquiring loudly as she went when the so-called war was going to begin . |
| 23 | Wedged inside that drum he drowned , his little legs waggling pathetically as he gulped and squirmed and tried to get his arms into a position from which he could lever himself out . |
| 24 | This involves noting when the specified behaviour starts , noting again when it ends and recording the time lapse . |
| 25 | So it was a way of getting out and I knew that eventually the council would have to rehouse me . |
| 26 | But then he started screwing around and I learned that deaf and dumb people are a bad-tempered lot — well , would n't you be ? — because they get so frustrated and I grew out of that one too . |
| 27 | They cleaved to each other , lips hard against lips , bodies crushed together , her heels against the small of his back , clinging there as they bucked and dived , soared and plummeted together . |
| 28 | If things are really bad , you are getting nowhere and you feel that an argument is developing , the best action is to state politely that you are not willing to be interviewed in such a manner , that you are clearly wasting one another 's time and you have decided to leave . |
| 29 | But there is no doing so unless we accept that the literal writer has an imagination . |
| 30 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |