Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [coord] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |
| 2 | Now I really love dressing up and I 've given all my trainers away to my brother . |
| 3 | Eyes looking back and I 'd got the old bit moving all the time keeping , he said righto get out , you 're leading me , they were too pleased to get rid of them . |
| 4 | Milkings three times a day would necessitate living nearby and they have applied for permission to build a farmhouse and steadings . |
| 5 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 6 | The prospects for an acceptable permanent solution were discussed at a District Council meeting recently and it seemed agreed that the travellers should have a permanent site and that the situation is urgent as tension is growing . |
| 7 | Julie had asked him what was going on but he 'd rushed out without telling her , mumbling only that it was important and that he did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 8 | I said , there 's loads of building going on and we have had money to do this and it 's jolly well time . |
| 9 | Perhaps you 're not a person to take criticism lying down and you have had some sharp exchanges with your friend . |
| 10 | No , cos the water 's not coming up above your face , the water 's filled the whole going down and it 's got gates . |
| 11 | going around and I 'd worked right through it because of all the Christmas preparation |
| 12 | If your perm is past its best and needs pepping up or you 've got naturally curly hair that lacks oomph , look for special ‘ body-building ’ styling products such as firm-hold mousse . |
| 13 | And you go back to light a sandbag , and there they all are , and they 're all a bit hot , it 's about , it 's like Hades , and there 's fork-lift trucks flying everywhere and you 've got pretty girls who in , in , in the team when you get down there and they start showing off , that 's alright , do n't mind that , and , and you 've got all these fork- lift trucks flying everywhere , and you 've got men carrying rolls of carpet and you 've got , you know , all this |
| 14 | Now when I spoke to Mrs on the telephone last night she told me about the work you 've been doing on and I have looked at it and I 'm going to go over it again with you this afternoon because she thought it was very very good work . |
| 15 | You 've been sitting in a side road waiting to come out , and you see a vehicle coming along and it 's got its left-hand indicator on and you think Oh lovely ! |
| 16 | You have been pressurised into coming here and I have added to that by demanding your help . |
| 17 | There was a horse running round and we got held up with traffic . |
| 18 | erm Take Poll Tax , for example , I can imagine a previous incumbent of Number Ten shrilly demanding that the spread of tax across the country should be done on a one off basis and charging forward and she 's introduced it , and look what a bag of worms that 's turned out to be . |
| 19 | fading now but I have seen it |
| 20 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 21 | But sometimes they 're taking lightly and we have found the help and encouragement that our christian friends and our our vicar have given to us in our difficult times have he helped keep us together . |
| 22 | 4 Do you think that he gets what he deserves ? 5 Have you ever been showing off and something has happened to you ? 6 Why do you think we like it when people who are being bigheaded get show up ? |
| 23 | Anyway , Robin 's just been poking around and he 's come up with a can of Mr Shen , the noo . |
| 24 | Anyway , Robin 's just been poking around and he 's come up with a can of Mr Shen , the noo . |
| 25 | so he goes oh what the hell and they shovel tea down him and erm he starts throwing up and , what happened is that when he , when he gets like cut down they ta take him back to the room and they put them in their boxer shorts just sitting there and they 've wired up a mouse trap to like their their |
| 26 | Right , but let's say that you 're not prepared to pop back , let's say that you 're sitting there and you 've got from that point , you want , you no want to go to the house , right , now you 're not you 're not gon na treat as a twenty minute call back , let's kill that for a minute |
| 27 | All that messing about and I 've broken a lily . ’ |
| 28 | Now , if we 've said that the correlation coefficient is the product that we 've been working out and we 've said the maximum positive value that this little expression here can obtain is N minus one , N minus one divided by N minus one is plus one . |
| 29 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
| 30 | As PNP progressed , we came across many examples of collaborations which were clearly working well and which had liberated staff to work in new ways , to increase their understanding and skill , and to attend more closely to the needs of particular groups and individuals . |