Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know this is the sort of thing and really , you know , sort of cropped hair and enormous moustaches like yard brushes , or this is the story that was told to me , and , and then there was this , all this , all this chortling about why their moustaches were so lubricant , oh yes , er so , so luxurious er rather , I beg your pardon , and erm |
| 2 | And it did n't matter what the music was like , it was just like a real person singing about how they feel . ’ |
| 3 | Inevitably Cash and Nelson dominated , Cash still singing about how he ‘ shot a man in Reno , just to watch him die ’ with terse relish , and Nelson drawing on a very Texan blend of swing , blues and country for a string of tender ballads . |
| 4 | Up on Nelson 's column they 're bellowing about how it 's the ‘ time to destroy . |
| 5 | Look at what you 've written and think , Oh I was just fumbling about here I did n't know where I was going . |
| 6 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 7 | I soon developed their reflexive habit of checking behind whenever someone walked towards me in a fairly empty street . |
| 8 | Whatever was happening in there they were certainly not going to be a party to it . |
| 9 | Without explaining to where they were going she walked regally from the room swinging her brief-case which , unlike a great many brief-cases on the streets of Berlin , was filled with notes and papers and not stolen goods . |
| 10 | clarification that that 's the er just the amendment relating to where you were trying to take away the rights of ward members to attend ? as you have taken away the rights of members on questions , comments er and other things |
| 11 | This entails listening , observing and relating to both what is being said and to the feeling with which this information is given ’ ( Neill , 1989 , p. 8 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Used to come tearing down 'ere 'e did . |
| 13 | I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you one of the scientists ? ’ asked Endill , cautiously returning to where he had dropped his ironing-board . |
| 15 | Driving you home or driving to wherever you want to go to in style on Trent F M , more updates later . |
| 16 | I remember Geoff telling me this , tears streaming down his face , marvelling at how it was his children who had the strength to carry on , and that it was they who had this practical , yet profound way of reaching to the heart of the matter . |
| 17 | Mr Charles remembered marvelling at how my father showed not one hint of discomfort or anger , but continued to drive with an expression balanced perfectly between personal dignity and readiness to oblige . |
| 18 | She nodded , understanding at once what he was really saying to her . |
| 19 | If dad starts looking through there he 'll never get down the street . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , Wales has its Max Boyces , Tom Jones , Shirley Basseys and Shakin' Stevens , but there are n't many singers who actually sing about the country , and the funny thing is that it 's taken me about thirty years to start writing about where I was brought up . |
| 21 | It 's almost always about the sort of fringe things that happen in schools , the not strictly educational erm organisational matters about when to bring bits of equipment and which day the term 's going to finish , but very few schools put much into writing about how they teach maths , or what the children are going to be doing that term as a topic . |
| 22 | So when Esquire ask for their 2,000 words next month about the connection between the Croatian Winter Olympics team uniform and Public Enemy , or the brutal point of Michael Barrymore , I can somehow contrive it that I end up writing about how it feels waiting for Maddy 's first smile , about the wonder of her 35th day , about her growing up and me growing up . |
| 23 | Yeah I was looking for somewhere he does n't . |
| 24 | The er directive of December nineteen ninety three did have details that we were not expecting and looking for so there was a great deal of new work to take on board . |
| 25 | She 'd been used to hopping around and flapping about wherever she pleased , so it came as a bit of a shock to find her freedom of movement restricted by the jesses . |
| 26 | Conspiring against almost everything ( one can say in retrospect ) were his exaggerated notions of his own divinely inspired relationship with the Iranian people . |
| 27 | you know , I just put it on the table and left it there and as I say it 's certainly better to because when you 're looking like then it 's easier do that . |
| 28 | Head-and-neck photos of Nessie , he says , look remarkably like pictures of African elephants swimming with just their trunks above water . |
| 29 | ‘ We will be looking into exactly what has happened , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Relaxation was impossible to him : not just because he was a superb ‘ detail ’ man looking into absolutely everything that could affect the outcome of a race , but because he was by nature a thoroughly driven and often neurotic man . |