Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pos pn] [noun] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realized her change of mood without understanding its cause and was obviously loath to let her go . |
| 2 | He glanced over his left shoulder and saw the three other officers were still two hundred yards away , then a shouted challenge from his right revealed that the French Lieutenant had succeeded in turning his horse and was now spurring back to make a new attack . |
| 3 | In another change of tack — there was a time when OS/2 was the whole future as far as the company was concerned , Microsoft Corp is switching its signals and is now making it clear that it expects MS-DOS users to prepare to switch to Windows NT . |
| 4 | My own view that Sun readers are n't stupid and that the general public is n't really a stupid erm but erm they enjoy reading it and they 're reading for the experience of reading , getting their views and are very almost like , have you ever seen processed cheese slabs , you know you can buy little pieces of cheese in little wrappers that stick on your bread or your butter or your rolls and the way the Sun , the Sun newspaper 's kind of like that , if you do n't wan na read thirty five pages in the Independent every day , enormous amount of news terrifically written , reported for the , for the most part , you could read the Sun at a quarter of the price , except that you do n't get all the news and you also get er a different political viewpoint but it 's one way of getting news in er |
| 5 | I was having a counsellor and a healer , sticking to my diet , doing my visualization and being as positive as I could be , but nothing was happening officially . |
| 6 | She bustled round finishing her jobs and was just about to leave when she noticed that the crepe paper had slipped from Granny 's frame . |
| 7 | Sam and Eric are captured by Jack and the whole thing turns out like a very gruesome game of Cowboys and Indians where Jack and his gang are painted like Indians losing their identity and are out to capture and kill Ralph . |
| 8 | He was clutching his foot and was obviously in a lot of pain . |
| 9 | In a choice between meekly obeying his commands and being publicly humiliated there really was no choice . |
| 10 | Terry was still feeling the sadness of leaving his mother and was more subdued than on their last leavetaking . |
| 11 | When we are ruled and guided from within , and not governed by impulse and emotions , we are still fulfilling our desire but are not ruled by it . |