Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [subord] [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man with a poor employment history , who has lost several jobs and experienced intermittent phases of unemployment , has a considerably raised probability of becoming depressed when he is again made redundant ( Eales , 1985 ) , but will also have a raised chance of being near the top of an employer 's list for redundancy in so far as it is the policy of many employers to exercise a ‘ last in first out ’ policy . |
| 2 | I fiddle with my safety catch like I 've just finished on the firing range , and I lean back looking nonchalant because I 'm too weak to make a move . |
| 3 | I said and there 's there 's me panicking like I said I said I 'm going grey as it is now I said without worrying about |
| 4 | I do n't see the point in going mad cos you 're not going to get there any quicker |
| 5 | I think that 's why she said she was getting better when she was n't . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're silly , ’ said my mother , getting angry because she was n't used to converse of culture . |
| 7 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 8 | I dislike doing this as I 'm well aware that defiance of authority is a bad example to the cast . |
| 9 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 10 | The title ‘ Futility ’ has a double meaning : at first , the futility of the attempts to rouse the soldier and in the latter half , the futility of all the complexity of the earth and the effort put into achieving this when it is just destroyed . |
| 11 | Can you imagine playing this when you 're just out your head ? |
| 12 | I find them a constant worry when they 're sleeping cos you 're making sure whether they 're still breathing |
| 13 | I erm am obviously feeling guilty cos I 'm not feeling guilty but it makes me cough a bit to go to the post office every week and get vastly more disabl disability er invalidity benefit than he gets , vastly more . |
| 14 | Leonora flew to do his bidding , feeling better once she was back in bed , her face sponged and the tangles brushed from her hair . |
| 15 | We were n't knuckling down but we started working more because we were n't fucking bossed about . |