Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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1 | If it 's pouring like with rain and go out |
2 | ‘ You are getting close to Ana and seem to have taken quite a responsibility on your shoulders . |
3 | ‘ I 've promised her mother that Silvia will continue with her studies while she 's staying here on holiday and pass the exams she 's already failed once . |
4 | Such schemes are essentially analytical in nature , but do not permit any synthesis or joining together of concepts that have been divided from one another . |
5 | I ca n't ever remember being more than healthily hungry , nor can I ever remember coming home from school or play when my mother was not there to welcome us . |
6 | And she came she was coming home from hospital and do you know my mother never had a little piece of bread to give to her when she brought her home . |
7 | Its unique policy of lending only on houses that encourage self-sufficiency and homes that promote a saving in non-renewable energy makes it worth every penny . |
8 | Because that 's a list he 's , of erm , he 's showing there of crimes that have been committed in this area er since |
9 | Marine bacteria take up DNA floating freely in seawater and dismantle it , experiments off the coast of Florida have shown . |
10 | He looked round him , upon the desolation of the field between Bryn Glas and the river , littered and faintly heaving still with bodies and cast arms , and groaning with the last convulsions of struggle and pain . |