Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Claudia had in mind was some colouring of the evidence so that the district officer , Miles Turnbull , a harassed , overworked but popular man , who was dead — bien entendu — could be seen to have acted rashly in asking his askaris to point a gun at Tepilit , which Tepilit naturally interpreted as meaning they were about to shoot him . |
| 2 | And they should come down cleaning and helping you like and making you something to eat like . |
| 3 | She tried hooking her fingers round the door and pulling , but he only laughed and grabbing her , dragged her to him , kissing the part nearest his face , which happened to be the base of her neck . |
| 4 | However much help or coaching you get , you have to do it yourself . ’ |
| 5 | I can not believe the amount of injury time actually , you see if I put a record on at half past eight they 'll have finished bang on half past eight but er the fact that I carry on rabbiting and telling you about the quiz competition three or four times er they decide to play plenty of injury time . |
| 6 | L.G. rather deprecated that saying he was not in love with it . |
| 7 | But many hospitals have ‘ built-up ’ pockets of specialisms and she does not think that concentrating them on fewer sites would mean the loss of centres of excellence . |
| 8 | Mr Skinner was inside her mind , whispering , alternately cajoling and scolding her . |
| 9 | But it 's not just , it 's not labelling and screening them it 's |
| 10 | It is too easy to say that the Opposition are just scaremongering and making it all up , and it will not be as bad as we fear . |
| 11 | Urgently Ramsay directed them , all but physically pushing and prodding them into the approximate shape of a great wedge . |
| 12 | We should be concentrating on particular aspects of school life , not producing information which already exists and duplicating it . |
| 13 | Is it not true that giving 17-year-olds fines does not work and sending them to prison is counterproductive ? |
| 14 | It 's a living system , it 's designed to help you , if it 's not supporting and helping you then it must be changed . |
| 15 | This means not over-feeding and ensuring you carry out regular water changes . |
| 16 | Usually this was limited to ‘ rough treatment ’ ( defined as pushing , slapping , or roughly handling the victim but not punching or kicking her ) , but in 13.6 per cent . |
| 17 | The need for this editing by copying , which requires the use of a second video machine , of course , is brought about because it is not possible to edit video tapes by physically cutting and rejoining them as you would a cine film or sound tape . |
| 18 | Ja just rubbing and giving him |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ said Cardiff , noting with rising anger that Rohmer was just standing and watching him with that smile on his face again . |
| 20 | It just means that putting it first |
| 21 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
| 22 | Well I just wondered if turning it down made any difference . |
| 23 | Thus the typical people criminally victimizing and forcing us to fear each other and fracture our sense of ‘ community ’ are young uneducated males , who are often unemployed , live in a working-class impoverished neighbourhood ; and frequently belong to an ethnic minority . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's still blustering and saying he never will and he once learnt Iago in three days , but he 'll have to come round . |
| 25 | She said she 's always complaining and criticising it 's quite funny though but there you go . |
| 26 | This is n't as bad as it seems ; switching a PC on and off does it more harm than leaving it powered up . |
| 27 | The base of the cake was the branches , us , the foundation of Save The Children Fund , doing what we usually do but doing it very , very well and very professionally , the fetes , the coffee mornings , the fashion shows , the sort of thing that our reputation is built on . |
| 28 | She became assertive-in-spite-of-herself , and marching rapidly from one end of the kitchen to the other , which she always did when entrusting him with a home truth , said , ‘ It 's not , Henry . |
| 29 | They also show that redressing it is a matter of importance to feminists as well as to philosophers . |
| 30 | The maintenance of such records in departments was traditionally seen as enabling them to see who did what , when , where and why , and what were the effects of these actions . |