Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 2 | they want using when they 're here otherwise it 's pointless , it 's like pots |
| 3 | Councillor and Councillor mentioned testing and they 're dead right , I oppose it , it 's an irrelevance , a complete distraction . |
| 4 | George could not face a life on his own , though I do n't think he would consider marrying because he is not a ladies ' man . |
| 5 | It does not include thinking that something is probably true , a state of mind which may be part of " believing " in ordinary language . |
| 6 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |
| 7 | Village life is therefore not as close knit as it once was , which is common in many villages today , but nevertheless local functions held in nearby Harpham village hall are always well attended proving that there is still a sense of community in the area . |
| 8 | On the issue of business confidence , the study revealed that economic confidence was returning , with 77 per cent of companies surveyed believing that they were well placed to lead the country out of recession . |
| 9 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 10 | The zooxanthellae , symbiotic algae which live in the tissues of photosynthetic ( light requiring ) corals , are responsible for the characteristic beige , brown , green or blue coloration of corals and soon cause bleaching if they are not allowed to function correctly . |
| 11 | Obscure forms of expression prevent speechreading unless they are already familiar . |
| 12 | So we , we th that , that was er another good thing they , they got going but there was very little for , for nurses to do . |
| 13 | That unsettled me a bit , but we eventually got going and it was all right . |
| 14 | Although saturation kinetics for glucose absorption from human jejunum have been shown suggesting that there is only active glucose transport , there is other evidence suggesting the participation of passibe glucose absorption as well . |
| 15 | It will keep going until it is all gone and then it will go to another place with water and do the same . |
| 16 | I know , look crying and it 's still sore today . |
| 17 | He mentally called her a child to avoid admitting that she was very much a woman . |
| 18 | felt it had not helped embalming as it was not in a sufficiently dignified manner . |
| 19 | I shot him between the eyes and then I was off , down the smallest streets , and I did n't stop pedalling until I was back in this Villa Baderini , which , as a matter of fact , used to be my father 's . |
| 20 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Most people who have visited Pisa know that the Torre Pendente began toppling while it was still being built . |
| 24 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 25 | I admit , the figure 's gone a bit , but then it started going when I was still twenty-five . |
| 26 | Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ? |
| 27 | One day I started crying because I was so upset about how poorly he was . |
| 28 | As soon as we got there , I started yelling for I was really scared , thought I should drown , but the grown-ups just laughed and off we slid , down the steep slope to hit the water with a mighty splash , then gently floated to the other side of the pool to disembark . |
| 29 | Bedworth , of North Parade , Ilkley , West Yorkshire , started hacking when he was only 14 and made ‘ electronic friends ’ with other hackers . |
| 30 | It 's as if the relationship needed redefining and I was n't committed to doing that . |