Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pers pn] [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 32 | Perhaps , however , we can make this claim by appeal to the initial moves of the argument that you are not justified in believing that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 33 | Remembering that we are here dealing with a community first to exile and then returned to an impoverished and divided land ( i.e. |
| 34 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 35 | I have now had to learn to cope with my problem and think before I react , remembering that I am now an adult . ’ |
| 36 | We may project the values we use ourselves on to other people — imagining that they are as critical as we are . |
| 37 | As we have seen earlier , this is a Freudian term implying that they are still committed to the ‘ pleasure principle ’ . |
| 38 | implying that they 're not any good , or not as good . |
| 39 | These features are worth remembering if you are currently exploring a new stretch of river . |
| 40 | ‘ They say that pain is good for writing and I 'm not sure about that , but I guess my trouble is I do n't know how to keep a distance . |
| 41 | The little dove huddles in her blanket , and , though Rainbow puts the heat on full , does not stop shivering until we 're somewhere in the depths of Essex , in the fast lane of the M25 . |
| 42 | Excuse me for swearing but I 'm just repeating what she said … |
| 43 | ( ‘ And their void shields are overlapping because they 're so figging close together ! |
| 44 | Erm , but those , that has all my appointments on , and I use a very simple system of crossed hatching when I am away from my base for , for the bulk of the day . |
| 45 | You 're either lying or you 're very naïve . |
| 46 | ISWALLOW hard , suspecting that I am about to become another statistic in the rising tide of Tube violence , 380 reported assaults a year and mounting , 16,000 other crimes . |
| 47 | And so we find that , apart from its use with predicate qualifiers , keep can also figure as the verb in an adverbal response to the question What … do to … ? ; as in : ( 36 ) what did the President do to the rebels ? he kept them incarcerated in Castellòn till 1835 Notice the inappropriate relationship of the question with how ? in this case , confirming that we are not dealing here with a predicate qualifier : ( 37 ) how did the President keep the rebels ? |
| 48 | Are keepi You are I mean obviously you are keeping yourself going cos you 're obviously getting out to come here and do bits and bobs but |
| 49 | Oh aye , I said to John I said well I say well how far we 're going cos I 'm not keen on going right a long way |
| 50 | Councillor and Councillor mentioned testing and they 're dead right , I oppose it , it 's an irrelevance , a complete distraction . |
| 51 | You know that 's all now going if you 're just talking about the flats area . |
| 52 | thought where you 're going if you 're only gon na have drink ? |
| 53 | Personally , I just get the feel going and I 'm out of here ! |
| 54 | You come quick off them though if you 're not wondering if you 're not watching what 's happening you come off sh |
| 55 | Nevertheless , she prevaricated as she said , ‘ Aunt Bertha has often thought of you — wondering if you 're all right — ’ |
| 56 | be late , because then I would be lying cos I 'm just home and I want to get |
| 57 | he 's just saying no but they 're really good and I 'm going but they 're not , they 're rubbish . |
| 58 | crap bands and I 'm going but they 're so untalented , sort it out and he 's going |
| 59 | Other wheels are turning but they are not our concern . |
| 60 | First you go past an array of AWACS planes , wondering whether you are actually allowed to see such things . |