Example sentences of "[vb base] in [v-ing] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe in wearing what you feel comfortable , you work better and er like the block , well you 'd , right after we 'd cut anything we 'd just |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just that in life we believe in doing what you want to do . |
| 3 | Other relatives and professionals collude in ignoring what they in fact know-that these people have lived together sexually , domestically and financially as if they were married . |
| 4 | The latter can become a point of pride and end in denying what it set out to affirm . |
| 5 | Such rules are not mere statistical abstractions but are directly discoverable , as we will attempt to show , in the accounts which football fans and schoolroom ‘ trouble makers ’ offer in explaining what they do and why they do it . |
| 6 | By ‘ blimpish ’ The Times presumably means that the directors it so describes show an obstinate and blinkered lack of concern for the national economic interest , and persist in pursuing what they judge to be the more immediate interests of the companies they direct . |
| 7 | Though I warn you , ’ he added menacingly , pointing one long brown finger at her , ‘ if you persist in upsetting her I will not hesitate to punish you even though I know how this hurts . |