Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [conj] [pers pn] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phatic function : opening the channel or checking that it is working , either for social reasons ( ‘ Hello' , ‘ Lovely weather ’ , ‘ Do you come here often ? ’ ) , or for practical ones ( ‘ Can you hear me ? ’ , |
| 2 | He is sensitive to her situation , never interfering or interrupting when she 's under the pressure he 's already created for her . |
| 3 | So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed . |
| 4 | Funnily enough though there are there are feminist women who are who are saying similar things that saying that it is a bit irresponsible to have gotten into bed with someone and taken all your clothes off and then say no . |
| 5 | Traditional civil-law interpretation would say that it is : the words amount to a demonstratio rather than a causa ; the testator is suggesting a means of satisfying the liability under trust rather than indicating that it is to arise only if the estate of Gaius Seius is entered . |
| 6 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 7 | It insists upon lumping the whole of reality together as a single ‘ thing ’ or ‘ system ’ like a body , rather than recognising that it is more a collection of different things , a network of interrelated but separate systems , animate and inanimate , that can not be welded together into one ‘ thing ’ . |
| 8 | And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens . |
| 9 | The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun . |
| 10 | spends his day blending the malt and seeing that it is despatched correctly . |
| 11 | The other best bit about sleeping with Marie is waking up and seeing if she 's awake . |
| 12 | Any visual task is rendered more difficult and fatiguing if it is undertaken in poor lighting . |
| 13 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 14 | In one evocative passage , during a discussion of animism and the development of automata , he refers to a six-year-old girl showing her doll how a computer works and explaining that it is a friend . |
| 15 | You 're wet and shivering as it is . |
| 16 | Everybody hates a bad leaver but , whereas in the West you can usually close the door on a guest who has finally reached the garden gate , in the islands it is impolite to stop waving and chanting until he is either round a corner and out of sight , or else too distant to be able to see the whites of his eyes . |
| 17 | Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish . |
| 18 | Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too . |
| 19 | It 's a pity you do n't feel like standing up and racing cos it 's lovely . |
| 20 | Oak is not really an ideal timber for external joinery since it can suffer from surface checking and splitting if it is exposed to the sun and the rain . |
| 21 | Commented Al Purdy , ‘ with ( this book ) Cohen brought to near perfection the techniques and rhythms of his first book ’ ; Eli Mandel — one of Canada 's most astute critics — speaks of it as ‘ a kind of gloss ’ to the Sabbath service , noting its rich diversity in subject and tone , and emphasising that it is ‘ not a random collection of lyrics . |
| 22 | Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative . |
| 23 | It 's increasingly difficult for the voluntary sector to make provision of this kind , to offer those opportunities without proper partnership with the state , so I do n't actually accept if you 're posing an alternative and saying that it 's either or , I do n't think that 's correct . |
| 24 | Antony firstly seeked the political side , he now appeals to their greed by producing Caesar 's will and saying that he is n't going to read it . |
| 25 | Despite such successes in imaginative shoestring operations , the UN is desperately in need of reform and strengthening if it is to meet the critical tests of the post-Cold War era . |
| 26 | Recognizing what God is really like , and knowing that he is our ally , can point the way back to health and wholeness . |
| 27 | Here some effort will be made to explore the theoretical significance of the commonly-experienced phenomenon of hearing a voice and knowing that it is familiar but not knowing to whom it belongs . |
| 28 | Hard at times , of course , frustrating too — there are always days when you wonder why you keep on struggling , keep on slogging away ; but the pleasure of doing something you enjoy , of creating and knowing that it 's all yours … ’ she shrugged ‘ … well , there 's nothing else like it . ’ |
| 29 | There 's nothing worse than being in a foul temper and knowing that it 's only you , you 've got to blame for it . |
| 30 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |