Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time Am I waiting until I become a little older ? |
| 2 | What am I wearing as I pine for the future , |
| 3 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 4 | I said and there 's there 's me panicking like I said I said I 'm going grey as it is now I said without worrying about |
| 5 | Realistically , I 've been applying for the sort of job that will pay me enough money to keep me going when I retire . |
| 6 | It 's the thought of you that keeps me going when I begin to flag or feel a bit faint-hearted … |
| 7 | ‘ It took virtually the whole of my grandmother 's legacy to buy out the lease — all I 've got left is a bit to keep me going until I start to show a profit . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night . |
| 9 | Or are you sulking because I rejected you ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ What were you saying when I came in ? ’ she said . |
| 11 | I was going to try the door , but I could hear him snoring before I touched the handle , so I turned and went to the bathroom . |
| 12 | There was only one occasion when , either preoccupied or through sheer inattentiveness , I found him rising before I had made preparations to follow . |
| 13 | But I remembered her asking whether I did n't go crazy on my own at The Pightle . |
| 14 | I often see him watching as I go by . |
| 15 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
| 16 | Well th maybe I should look at it seeing as I missed it . |
| 17 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've often seen it falling when I 've come home through a raid , from that Anti Aircraft gun . |