Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [coord] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I think , I think Council is accepting this but I think it 's
2 Erm we 've we 've actually developed social housing really rather as it 's been an opportunity we 've grabbed it and we 've done it , you know , some of it 's been very very good an and nobody 's knocking that but I think it is time that we took stock and actually had a a proper policy and a proper strategy on sa on social housing .
3 Allison would respond by becoming moody and it soured many of the sessions .
4 It was becoming dark and I realized that I had lost my way .
5 They ca n't understand anyone not minding losing and they want to shine individually .
6 Now the bounds are becoming blurred and they take on rather broader questions of the social good and morality , personal and public .
7 That was a fairly challenging one and I waited .
8 His position was now becoming desperate and he cursed himself again for his stupidity .
9 It 's like , one day developing right and she has n't got round to collecting them yet .
10 And given the fact do n't forget , it 's always worth remembering this and I 've I 've made , I 'll be making the point later on .
11 I 'm soaking wet and you call it nice and it 's dismal , oh
12 My body is looking good and I feel great .
13 Money Your finances are looking healthy and you feel confident that you 're in command of your cash .
14 If sudden illness overtakes an elderly person living alone and she needs to be admitted to hospital , she sometimes becomes very agitated and distressed .
15 Mrs Stevens got the blame for producing these but she claimed that she had merely kept him talking while her son went for the police .
16 I do think answer for that one er erm I 'm not aware of any paper that 's published presenting that and we came as close as we could to answering that but nobody really knows for sure .
17 Sometimes I think we have been too conservative and worried about things like a hi-hat not sounding right and we have lost the edge .
18 I had information he was going protectionist and I had to get in quick .
19 But your chest is , is sounding clear and I expect it 's management of the hernia that 's going
20 I do n't like seeing things going wrong and I do n't tend to say ‘ well done ’ to people when things have gone well . ’
21 Erm I do n't think that as a committee that we should be getting into the detail necessary of what 's going wrong and I think er Harold made that quite well .
22 Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat
23 He is going bald and he has a nose like a Jew 's , though he is n't ( not that I 'd mind if he was ) .
24 At Amis 's stage of existence , the options were narrowing fast and he knew that out of all the possibilities , wonderful was hardly the most likely .
25 ‘ I knew I was n't going great but I thought I 'd score 8,200-8,300 .
26 100m from the line Block/Burgess were lying 4th but they seemed to find a reserve of energy from somewhere and crossed the line 1st , followed by Estevez/Marcheco of Cuba and Bobreshov/Kalesnik of the USSR in 0.8 secs .
27 He explained payments in eight monthly instalments may give the impression that tenants were paying more but it covered the full year .
28 I was going absolutely eppy This is in the middle of class , I was going eppy And she goes and I goes , oh yes just cos daddy 's got a very nice car and you live in Inkborough like this !
29 I said , you know , it 's costing fifteen pound a week in a , a least and you you 're you 're paying ten and he said , no he said , he said I think that 's ample , he said .
30 Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ?
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