Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The House of Lords held that the surveyor was discharging the duties of both expert and quasi-arbitrator , and was not in the position of an independent arbitrator who had no other duty which involved acting in the interests of one of the parties , and that accordingly in so acting he was not guilty of collusion or bad faith . |
| 2 | I would point , ‘ You there , with your head down pretending you 're not here . |
| 3 | ‘ Tina came with me , ’ he said , suddenly remembering she was there . |
| 4 | Have you ever had the experience , in the middle of a lesson , of suddenly wishing you were not there ? |
| 5 | Er although erm basically speaking you were normally talking about basic rates rather than earnings . |
| 6 | so saying they 're very old fashioned erm sort of democratic ideas , are n't they ? |
| 7 | In so doing we are probably , assuming such abilities exist , mixing chalk with cheese : clairvoyance , for example , may have as little to do with precognition as vision has to do with touch . |
| 8 | It can be seen that in terms of the formal equations it is possible to make some juncture , but in so doing it is also possible to lose sight of the quite different perspectives from which they derive . |
| 9 | STV propaganda appears to take a curious pride in emphasizing this equalization , failing to notice that in so doing it is merely emphasizing the artificiality of the system . |
| 10 | In so doing he is generally able to avoid criticisms laid against classical liberalism concerning both its atomistic conception of the human condition and the moral status of the theory . |
| 11 | It 's easy enough saying it is n't it . |
| 12 | So assuming it was n't bad manners or simply an oversight , you must have had a reason . ’ |
| 13 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 14 | You did n't have time to do much talking you were so busy sewing . |
| 15 | And I we just feel that can not go along thinking it 's never gon na happen to you . |
| 16 | So if I put , oh no it 's only throwing it in n it ? |
| 17 | The first time he had driven the van to Stowbridge he had smashed its top to pieces against the arch of the bridge , not realising it was just a few inches too high to go under . |
| 18 | Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ? |
| 19 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 20 | But we 're not pandering it 's not pandering to the kids ! |
| 21 | Now it 's like robbing Peter to pay Paul , you 're not living you 're just existing . |
| 22 | He 's not listening he 's not listening |
| 23 | Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over . |
| 24 | I 'm just pretending we 're not doing C again . |
| 25 | Finally deciding it was not only pointless , but spineless as well to stand at the door waiting for a man who would n't come , she went up to bed , and surprisingly she fell asleep almost at once , only to be woken some hours later by a violent storm . |
| 26 | They were about five yards apart and he was just deciding they were n't anything to do with him when they both took out pistols . |
| 27 | Well th it is the case that we 're not going we 're definitely not going away before May |
| 28 | But you 're not going you 're not rushing off are you ? |
| 29 | And use you 're you 're not going it 's not going to be negative is it ? |
| 30 | I 'm not going I 'm not prepared to in any manner er discuss er the case of the proceedings . |