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 | Before adding or taking away we get the number on the bottom to be the same right . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sarah was watching and listening so I asked her if she thought they were all the same . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All this begging for money was time-consuming and degrading so I decided to concentrate on finding work . |
| 10 | For details write to the secretary , CPGB , 6 Cynthia Street , London N1 9JF , outlining any relevant experience and indicating clearly which post you are applying for . |
| 11 | And doing afterwards I did t er See the war came and they could n't get people . |
| 12 | and saying well you know that if we , if the sort of rich peasants were |
| 13 | And I 'm questioning you about what you think this says about John Major , and you 're coming back and saying well I do n't know because how can we |
| 14 | And she was very worried and kept on crying down the phone , and saying now I know what you went through with Gerry I said , oh come , you know |
| 15 | And saying maybe you know I should look up see if I can find some . |
| 16 | There was something about those faces , however , that made him uneasy and coming nearer he saw that they had been terribly pocked by round shot and musket fire , as if by a disfiguring disease . |
| 17 | It was quite a long way , and coming home she let the pony trot while she ran beside me . |
| 18 | We went in and people were singing and dancing so we joined in too . |
| 19 | She did not even need to cook since she lived on bread and melon and tomatoes , lacking the energy and appetite to bother with anything else and having only herself to consider . |
| 20 | Entitled The Special Edition , it restored around 17 minutes of original unscreened footage , filling in more background to Ripley 's material angst and showing exactly what happened to Newt 's parents and the other settlers on the Alien 's planet . |
| 21 | I 'd forgotten what a delicious meal tea could be ; and sitting there I felt invaded by the envy of the man who lives in an institution , and has to put up with institution meals and institution everything else , for the rich private life of the established . |
| 22 | Marcus and the woman were just sitting there grinning at each other and talking so I went to track Shelly down . |
| 23 | The bosom rising and falling underneath who knows how many decorous layers of cloth . |
| 24 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 25 | But peering close I saw no grey at all ; |
| 26 | ‘ She is still in bed but smiling profusely she has a lovely pair of eyes . ’ |
| 27 | While standing there I noticed Dr Greenslade drive by . |
| 28 | Whilst doing so he managed to chomp his way through several broken biscuits . |
| 29 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 30 | Even now , methinks , as pondering here I stand , |