Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when I say a mass it 's not got preaching or anything . |
| 2 | If the weather 's all right and it 's not raining or nothing , I usually go to the garden to help Mr Frost . |
| 3 | Then if you had a puncture and it was raining or something . |
| 4 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 5 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |
| 6 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 7 | The people that your toddler feels most confident in showing generosity towards are you , her parents , so encourage this trait by asking her to give you things : for example , ask her to give a toy , drawing or her teddy to Daddy . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) There is a modern attempt to defend what is called objectivism in ethics which turns on viewing both facts and values as essentially social constructs which are what they are because they are either what society drills us into accepting or what exceptional individuals can persuade us follow from the procedures we have been drilled into accepting as correct . |
| 9 | No cos whenever we go in there they 're always moaning if Cliff starts singing or something . |
| 10 | Okay well they 're two completely different spelling different things and you got them bot right I did n't I did n't help you I did n't even say and think about which sort of bean you 're using or anything like that did I . |
| 11 | And perhaps she should take up jogging or something . |
| 12 | He says you should go , go jogging or something late at night . |
| 13 | Not typing or anything — he said he did n't need a secretary ; what he did need , he said , was someone to keep his office nice . |
| 14 | Affixes used to mark tense or number ( e.g. he is paint ing or he paint s ) are known as inflectional affixes and those used to derive related words ( e.g. paint er or re paint ) are known as derivational affixes . |
| 15 | Leave enough space between you and the vehicle in front so that you can pull up safely if it slows down or stops suddenly , the safe rule is never to get closer than the overall stopping distance shown below , but on the open road in good conditions leave a gap of one metre for each mile an hour of your speed or a two second time gap may be enough , they will also leave space for an overtaking vehicle pulling or wet or icy or the gap should be at least double that , drop back if you know that taking vehicle closing gap in front of you make way for ambulance , fire engines , police or van emergency vehicles when their blue lamps are flashing or their bells , two tone cones or sirens or . |
| 16 | And those people that take or get extra , either their body is not producing or they want an extra bit for something so they can run a hundred yards at er in an extra five minutes . |
| 17 | no you were like eating or something mm |
| 18 | But I was n't eating or anything , I mean |
| 19 | I must be quiet ; they must not hear my heart thumping or my involuntary gasp . |
| 20 | We wonder whether this has anything to do with an ‘ upgradeable ’ machine DEC seems to be using where you could yank out the 80486 and substitute a P5 . |
| 21 | The trouble was she was talking to people on camera and you did n't hear anyone laughing or anything embarrassing . |
| 22 | Erm I du n no , the thing is our prom , yeah , is the day before so like I 'm gon na be pretty fucked erm two , a couple of my friends who are coming , they 've got they 're like in the middle of the ex their exams like erm I know my one friend 's driving there but he 's going from St John 's Wood , thanks , erm we might be able to pick you up , I 'm not sure , it depends what 's happening or you might go with Josh , like we 'll meet outside probably . |
| 23 | Sounds like you 're saying you caught me sulking or something like that no have you not seen it , he was in Inspector Morse as well . |
| 24 | On a point of order , Mr. Speaker — not related to business questions or to the fact that I am sulking or anything like that ; it is a totally different matter . |
| 25 | You do n't have to spend a lot of money to look just nice looking I mean d' you know , er just you know nice appearing , clean appearing or something like that that will do and beauty most of it its come from inside . |
| 26 | What I do n't quite understand is what was the legal basis on which they went ahead with this despite the objection , presumably as some of the trustees as to what was being done , I could hear we 're talking of er a deficit of one point seven billion appearing or it a surplus disappearing into a deficit , which is actually four times as much has disappeared out of Maxwell . |
| 27 | All procedures for objective setting , planning , time keeping or whatever are agreed in the light of the task to be done and the situation . |
| 28 | And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks . |
| 29 | No extra-loud snoring or anything , not for this baby … |
| 30 | I probably , homework , because her daughter was dying or something and she , her daughter was quite seriously ill and taken to hospital , so we just had Miss so we were n't given any homework for that |