Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [coord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
| 2 | Wycliffe 's pipe was drawing nicely and he sat relaxed , as though he might stay indefinitely . |
| 3 | A pig and a chicken were walking together and they saw a huge sign advertising scrambled eggs and bacon . |
| 4 | We 're giving people a very bad impression if we 're opening tonight and nothing 's been cleared up . |
| 5 | Walking home and you work it out . |
| 6 | Well you were just talking about children erm my feeling is that we 're all children , there is no division between being a child and an adult and I think that they can accept a whole lot , but there 's a whole lot of adults that ca n't accept the shocks that are happening today and they put them into their subconscious and unfortunately it comes out in so many other ways — it comes over as a neurosis or as a mental disorder at some later date . |
| 7 | I turned round to go , but things were blurring again and I misjudged the turn and banged my head against the edge of the door . |
| 8 | Yes it was yes , last sort of quarter of an hour they was pressing forward and you know , it always looks like you know , they 're going to nick it but , we held out . |
| 9 | And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum . |
| 10 | ‘ They had been living together but she said she was leaving him , ’ said Mr Ben Hemo . |
| 11 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |
| 12 | You 're here to see us acting naturally and I do n't see why we should change , because then you 're not getting a true picture , are you ? |
| 13 | Funny enough , Peter and I have both been swimming together and we 've both got the same thing |
| 14 | You let everything go for weeks and weeks and obviously find just getting a meal tiring enough and you know I do n't want you to do anything that 's too much for you . |
| 15 | You know , suppose parliament starts breaking the rules and acting arbitrarily and I say the mechanism is not clear . |
| 16 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 17 | I hate living here and I hate you . |
| 18 | Mrs Singh seemed to be listening intently but I guess that a lot of what was being said went over her head . |
| 19 | and they 're living there and they do n't speak Welsh |
| 20 | Milkings three times a day would necessitate living nearby and they have applied for permission to build a farmhouse and steadings . |
| 21 | The manner of integration remains to be seen in practice when the two modes of working are operating fully but there seem to be at least three possible strategies . |
| 22 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 23 | It were nice just to relax and I started smoking again and I packed up last Sunday . |
| 24 | He was shivering again and he swallowed another handful of tablets from his waist pouch . |
| 25 | The prospects for an acceptable permanent solution were discussed at a District Council meeting recently and it seemed agreed that the travellers should have a permanent site and that the situation is urgent as tension is growing . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been doing lots of shouting recently and we 've both been unhappy . |
| 27 | Dieter guided her to an empty chair ; she was trembling violently and he called for brandy . |
| 28 | She 's trembling violently and she starts to retch , leaning against me for support as the heaving racks her . |
| 29 | The band was called Touching Home and we got a lot of church functions and ended up playing for the American community there . ’ |
| 30 | Not only was he engaged in a war , but , as soon became clear , it was a war which was going badly and which threatened to become unpopular in both France and Britain . |