Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 32 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 33 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 34 | So that 's all we we do and and interfering cos we 're not . |
| 35 | ‘ I would n't know he was sulking if he was n't there , would I ? ’ said Constance . |
| 36 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 37 | ‘ I was terribly upset about my husband dying and I was n't 100 per cent . |
| 38 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 39 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 40 | I 'm laughing cos I 'm so happy . |
| 41 | And I saw it and everybody in the whole room saw it and burst out laughing cos it was so funny . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've never been interested in driving and I 'm not going to start now , ’ said Liz , who works at Courtaulds Electrical Insulation at Runcorn in the UK . |
| 43 | You 'd be walking if it was n't for me . |
| 44 | One of the great things about watching a good comedy show or film is that people around you start laughing and you are much more likely to join in . |
| 45 | She liked Min and Jo and so she walked past the newsagents smiling , without noticing until she was almost at the next newsagents , which ran out of her newspaper by ten in the morning . |
| 46 | And they 'll check that out for you and we 'll see what 's happening but it 's just in case there 's any arthritis or anything like that that 's |
| 47 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 48 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 49 | ‘ It is cooling because you are so late . |
| 50 | It is no good complaining about militants running everything if we have not spotted what is happening because we 're so busy doing it the way ‘ we always do ’ . |
| 51 | did n't know what had been happening because he was n't at the meeting . |
| 52 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 53 | But Phillip Chubb is in our group And he wants to be Robin Hood And Ann Boot is sulking because she 's not with her friend And I do n't see why I should be wood . |
| 54 | ‘ Yes , it has been wonderful , querida , ’ he agreed quietly , his eyes softening till they were almost hazel in shade . |
| 55 | I carry on walking till it 's really dark and all the cars have got their lights on . |
| 56 | ‘ But I do n't suppose she 'll be doing much painting while I 'm here . ’ |
| 57 | That section states that a person convicted of taking without consent is liable to pay compensation for any — and I emphasise that word — damage to the property ’ occurring while it was out of the owner 's possession ’ and that such damage is to be treated as ’ having resulted from the offence , however and by whomsoever' the damage was caused . ’ |
| 58 | This is a very important position you 're after , I shall have to be very thorough in checking whether you 're up to it . |
| 59 | At the end of the road the huge bulk of the church with its soaring walls of smoke-blackened brick looked as much out of keeping as it was out of scale with this small domestic self-sufficiency . |
| 60 | From the first Emilia occupied the position of a precariously privileged dependant , and complained of ‘ hard fortune ’ , her father dying when she was only eight , leaving a ‘ miserable ’ estate . |