Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] that [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was being so damned honest all of a sudden , there was no use pretending any longer that I had chosen the obscure fishing village of Collioure for a holiday for any other reason than because I had heard he usually went there . |
| 2 | Then her hand shot out and she whipped the piece of paper out of his pocket , moving so quickly that he had no chance to stop her . |
| 3 | The inference that he did so by selling is supported by the incidental evidence of miracle-stories : one from St-Benoît-sur-Loire , for instance , recorded in the 870s , tells of two " comrades " ( compares ) at the monastery 's weekly market , who quarrelled over the 12d. they had made on their joint transactions ; another story of similar date from St-Hubert in the Ardennes has a peasant ( rusticus ) stating quite explicitly that he has come to an annual fair " to acquire the wherewithal to pay what I owe to my lord " . |
| 4 | So I lay naked in the rinsed airlessness of the room , waiting for She-She 's return , and wishing pretty earnestly that I had taken my chances with Moby . |
| 5 | She looked at him mutely , wishing very fervently that she had never invented the stupid lie for Deana 's benefit . |
| 6 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 7 | ‘ Come in , ’ she invited , knowing full well that he had no intention of delivering any of his remarks from where he stood anyhow . |
| 8 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 9 | Pinned beneath him , she was shaking so violently that she had to cling to him to steady herself . |
| 10 | Fearnley was by now talking so quietly that I had to lean close to hear him . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's playing so well that he 's been a very big miss . |