Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-love does not mean loving only your good points , or loving the person you are becoming , or believing you are perfect . |
| 2 | For instance , when a teacher is speaking or demonstrating it is better not to stand in front of windows . |
| 3 | When we start with the basics , any short cuts to understanding and drawing them are valuable . |
| 4 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 5 | If you could read horses ' minds , would n't riding and handling them be easier ? |
| 6 | If you could read horses ' minds , would n't riding and handling them be easier ? |
| 7 | JB : Just working alongside these people , and seeing them being involved in whatever it was they were doing was stimulating in a strange sort of way , and kept us on our toes . |
| 8 | It said ‘ Many of the smaller hard drives available , especially old ones , use Stepper Motor actuators and it is these that really require that a low level format be carried out on them at least once a year , as after a long period of heating and cooling it is more than possible that the heads are out of alignment with the tracks . |
| 9 | When he first heard her voice she seemed to be in agony , and imagining she was ill , he had started impulsively forward again ; then with a deep sense of shock he had sensed the awful intimacy of the strangled cries . |
| 10 | When you are all up and going they are all for it , but then you arrange a meeting and only six people turn up . ’ |
| 11 | Though orchids are easy to propagate from seed , and exporting them is exempt from Cites rules , traders have found it more profitable to dig plants up instead . |
| 12 | Hoping for elegance ( such a strive ) and wishing she was taller for , although her figure was fine , given the height , two inches or four , she might have been a model . |
| 13 | He was capable of wanting nothing all day , of sending every meal away and not allowing Teresa in , even to make up his fire or turn down his bed , and then , around midnight , calling for his breakfast and complaining he was cold because the fire had gone out . |
| 14 | One of the major problems for us , whichever Party 's in in control , and I think if Councillor had gone to the press after this report was done and , rather than trying to score points and saying it 's all because it 's lack of Government cash , if he 'd appli if he 'd said , let's all get together on this , let's try and solve the problem , the problem 's been going on indefinitely , let's try and s , he might have gained more credibility . |
| 15 | The passengers came straggling back shedding overcoats and saying it was cold outside , and again the dining car filled up . |
| 16 | We were informed that the Prime Minister had set aside an hour for us , and she arrived on the dot , nicely accoutred and coiffeured and saying she was ready to go when we were . |
| 17 | Being accused and knowing she was innocent had been bad enough . |
| 18 | I have been missing a lot of bites and assuming they are false takes — probably on the shoe — I will replace the No.8 with a No.12 Styl , hoping to eliminate the problem . |
| 19 | To do so you would have to keep careful pedigree records of caddises bred in captivity , and breeding them is difficult . |
| 20 | It cost me less than a tenner and for swingtipping and springtipping it was brilliant . |
| 21 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 22 | And wash it , and washing them was another problem in n it ? |
| 23 | He was no stranger now and leaving him was hard , more bitter to her than anything had ever been . |
| 24 | As long as they were n't making trouble and thinking they were better than us . |
| 25 | erm James and Alex and Danny laughing at him and thinking he 's funny because they all fancy him |
| 26 | Reform and strengthen local government , removing unnecessary tiers , restoring councils ' independence and ensuring they are accountable to the people through a fair voting system . |
| 27 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 28 | In order to understand what is " obvious " about sleep and dreaming it is necessary to examine some of the conventional ideological baggage which most Westerners carry about with them , and its historical origins . |
| 29 | It is essentially a simple notion — that we take turns to speak — but explicating it is difficult , as there is an intricate system of rules governing the sequences of sentences we use ( eg which types of question constrain which kinds of answer and the contexts in which they occur ( eg the factors which permit unexpected sequences , such as when Hello is followed immediately by Goodbye , or Goodbye is allowed to precede Hello ) . |
| 30 | In the opinion of Paul Whitfield , Deputy Chairman of Bonham 's , the cost structures of a company such as Sotheby 's are inappropriate to the present recessionary climate , but dismantling them is impossible without breaking up the company — one possible solution in his opinion . |