Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts . |
| 2 | I called and asked what was happening to my appeal . |
| 3 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
| 4 | ‘ The locals come for the entertainment , and to see who 's buying into their village , ’ observed one auction-goer . |
| 5 | And say we are coming in no time at all . ’ |
| 6 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 7 | But a cooker 's no problem because I know you can go into the Electricity Board and say I 'm moving into a new property , I have n't got a cooker and they would , you can get them . |
| 8 | I think we 've got to draw the line and say there is going to be a cost to our econ our ecology , if we allow it to run in the way the government have in mind . |
| 9 | I can not stand it any longer , if someone does not come to me I will give up and be miserable for ever and perhaps go home of my own accord , write or wire to Uncle C. and say you are coming at once pleas darling , and come on Saturday or I will give up altogether and always wretched . |
| 10 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 11 | I looked across at Mum and found she was looking at Mrs Danby with an expression I did not recognize . |
| 12 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 13 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 14 | Imagine now communication I 'm talking about not only through letter and telephone I 'm talking about total communication . |
| 15 | Then , came Peter 's most frightening moment : ‘ We were sent out in a Land Rover and told we were driving through enemy territory . ’ |
| 16 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 17 | Winix has already captured support from several computer firms and systems integrators including Tandem , Motorola , MicroAge and Science Applications International Corp ( SAIC ) , and says it is negotiating with several OEMs . |
| 18 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 19 | There I was , back on a drip , and wondering what was happening to me . |
| 20 | However , if one party is to bear the costs of the other it is important to specify this in the heads and ensure it is binding on all parties . |
| 21 | At certain points in the tale he stops and takes what is happening as the starting-point for a wander along lanes of quasi-anthropological speculation about the problems of the American male ( and , by extension , of ‘ civilised ’ men everywhere ) . |
| 22 | For complex processes the procedures can include stages of diagnosis ( see below ) because the operator has to monitor and interpret what is happening in the plant . |
| 23 | ‘ He flew back today and heard I was working for you , so he — ’ |
| 24 | Here we are talking about a degree of conscious awareness that allows the individual to understand and control what is happening to him . |
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| 26 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 27 | Again she heard herself say , ‘ that' , and then she managed to stammer , ‘ w … was my sister , ’ before the floating feeling overcame her and she-knew she was falling into somewhere . |
| 28 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
| 29 | He would n't chase her after reading the letter she had left for him , politely thanking him for his hospitality and saying she was returning to Palma to complete her work before returning to England . |
| 30 | Exmouth Beach , Devon , England early on in the morning of August 18 , 1989 and guess who is coming to town ? |