Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence philosophical analysis can and must proceed by erm philosophical thinking must proceed by analysis , by breaking down complex wholes into their simple parts and building them up by construction out of these simple parts , a conviction to which Russell remained true for the rest of his life . |
| 2 | ‘ Ruggiero was driving her back from Rome late one night , and somehow the car left the road and ended up against a tree . |
| 3 | booking it in as book twice stage you see . |
| 4 | In fact , Johnny 's not picking me up from school again tonight . |
| 5 | I 'm just bringing you up to date really , they 've actually er resisted quite violently towards the reacted quite violently towards the erm price increase and er we 've erm just sent them back , Peter 's just writing a letter so there 'll be a letter coming in |
| 6 | They 're sending them out to bookshops all over the country … thousands have already been sold , and the way things are at the moment there does n't look like any let up in sight . |
| 7 | They 're not expecting her in on Monday then ? |
| 8 | I 'm not proposing that to you at the moment Chairman , I 'm just pointing it out to members so that there 's no confusion on it . |
| 9 | I think that was quite interesting having it on at midnight exactly . |
| 10 | As a matter of fact , he 's taking me out to dinner tomorrow . ’ |
| 11 | It might if dust never gathered on the old photo albums full of the ex and I whooping it up in Corfu circa 1980 . |
| 12 | If making it more fun is bringing it up to date then I 'm all in favour |
| 13 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 14 | The analogue armoury on here is fearsome , and doubtless his dad has got a huge record collection so he 'll be churning them out for ages yet and we might as well get used to it . |
| 15 | With four more British soccer sides battling it out in Europe tonight , one club in particular will be trying to recapture its past glories . |