Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's phoning them up and the person I want to talk to is n't there ! |
| 2 | I ran away , back to Palma , because I could n't bear the pain of Maria Luisa coming back , wanting you back and the life all three of you shared . ’ |
| 3 | One 's pushing it over and the other one 's pulling it back , oh there is n't enough of them around as it is he 's late is n't he ? |
| 4 | he was n't playing peculiar and the teacher say said something about , he was reading it out and the kids said oh what 's his name then and she said he 's names Geoff and they were all going ooh Geoff and she said , he says I think she does it on purpose |
| 5 | Mrs Bracken 's varicose veins were playing her up and the doctor had told her to rest for a week . |
| 6 | In fact the steam is a convenient way of heating the wood without drying it out and the mechanism is exactly the same as that used by hairdressers for curling hair . |