Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew Wilder rose to his feet as they approached the corner table , and instead of shutting his eyes or turning away he scrutinised Lucy with interest . |
| 2 | I mean even when you 're young and play football or running there you know at the start of a season you know |
| 3 | And I think if you start analysing it and trying to think back to how or why , or questioning why it happened , you start worrying about whether it 's going to happen again , and then it wo n't happen . |
| 4 | Before adding or taking away we get the number on the bottom to be the same right . |
| 5 | There are some very good science programs on TV , but others present scientific wonders simply as magic , without explaining them or showing how they fit into the framework of scientific ideas . |
| 6 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 7 | but make me laugh even now , she said the first , the first memories I 've got of new little boy that starting in he looked at this little boy , she said , so , so excited by said with this pure white hair and the |
| 8 | And yes you ask and open probe , but follow up with secondary and tertiary open probes , what they mean if you broke your back and could n't pay the bills , how would you suffer , what would , what would be the problems if , god forbid , you did die last night , what would you want your family to have how much do you want them to have , when do you want them to have it what would they go without if they did n't have it okay so they start building mental pictures rather than saying okay you need hundred thousand pounds worth of life assurance , because that 's a fact |
| 9 | First , it makes the differences seem natural and inevitable — rather than questioning where they come from and what social functions they serve , readers are urged to accept and adjust to them . |
| 10 | Although joking apart I urge members to support this on principle , I think we should put this in and then it will have to be considered next year , how , where the money will , will come from , and I think that we should establish it that married women with dependant children will get some allowance to help them to stand and represent their communities . |
| 11 | Many plants spread naturally in this way , their flexible stems arching down and rooting where they rest on the ground , and gardeners have adopted this method for woody subjects otherwise difficult to propagate . |
| 12 | Which is if , I mean when he was giving lectures in government and binding , people would invited him would put up posters saying government and binding so he got all the wrong audiences . |
| 13 | And in tutorials there is opportunity to take well judged risks — by which I mean being unafraid of going for the character and seeing where it leads — even with well known speeches . |
| 14 | That is , going through various categories — education , qualifications , experience , etc. , and seeing how they match up with the picture of the ideal candidate which you built up . |
| 15 | ‘ We learn by just popping things in and seeing how they do . ’ |
| 16 | She carries on investigating her new present and seeing how it works . |
| 17 | We 'd set on living together , and seeing how it worked out , with or without the baby . |
| 18 | Well you start going for the paper and seeing how you like walking right under the ! |
| 19 | Does ’ detailed information on how to judge a school 's performance ’ mean that the system will be the same as our parents charter , or does it , as it sounds , means that there will be an extra layer of bureaucracy , taking into its embrace Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and producing not what has been described as raw data , but information that colours it all ? |
| 20 | Mike , a Cambridge undergraduate who is working on a kibbutz is talking to the Jewish girl Gila and explaining why he left university to end up in Israel . |
| 21 | Creed was showing some of the pieces to the tourist and explaining how they worked . |
| 22 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 23 | Trivers imagined that reciprocal altruism would evolve in species capable of recognising individuals and remembering how they behave , and of behaving differently towards different partners . |
| 24 | Sarah was watching and listening so I asked her if she thought they were all the same . |
| 25 | In addition to discussion and supervision from John throughout the research and writing up I have benefited considerably at various points from the help of Debra Bekerian , Ivan Brown , Andy Macleod , David Routh , Fraser Watts , and many others . |
| 26 | The younger of the pair , Joseph noticed , held his arms unnaturally high across his tiny chest , and looking closer he saw a little bulge rumpling and moving beneath his silk tunic . |
| 27 | Yes and switching the light on and looking around what did you do ? |
| 28 | She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side . |
| 29 | And then she heard a gunshot and the sound of a horn , and looking back she saw , high on Ballymacadoyle Hill , her own father and brothers and a crowd of others too , and they were waving and shouting — and suddenly she understood exactly what was happening : they were giving her their last farewell ; she was leaving Ireland , and might never return . |
| 30 | It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly , so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust . |