Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Push , push it back there , then you can carry on eating if you want to , then you can sit there |
| 2 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 3 | I 'm only going cos I got to . |
| 4 | The external factors affecting your business are constantly changing and you have in order to survive to adapt to these external changes . |
| 5 | ‘ Is this the kind of thing you want , old thing ? ’ he enquired kindly , obviously feeling that she needed to be humoured . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ? |
| 7 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 8 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 9 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 10 | They needed no second bidding but rode as fast as they could , not pausing until they thundered through the half-open gate of Godstowe Priory , putting the porter into such serious agitation he appeared almost sober for once . |
| 11 | Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net . |
| 12 | But not going when you need to causes water absorption and hardening , and the longer the child holds on to a movement , the harder it will be — making the problem worse . |
| 13 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 14 | A child in a bed nearby began to whimper and Dot wondered if not crying when you wanted to counted as being brave . |
| 15 | Head down , she ran through the wood , past the beech tree and the stile , not stopping until she came to Dormer Cottage . |
| 16 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |
| 17 | For a short time she stood still and silent , scarcely breathing as she revelled in the novelty of his tenderness , but presently her body started stirring in response to the warmth of his mouth , a new sweetness to her desire . |
| 18 | Julia did n't care a sod about that kid , she 'd let her to scream on , stand in the middle of the garden screaming , indoors screaming and she said to me I have no feelings for her whatsoever but she took the bloody money every week and this is what 's so wrong , nobody knows how she er was as that child , only people like us who would hear |
| 19 | Yes , but pretends he 's not watching and he looks over the top of his paper . |
| 20 | So we 're not proposing that you turn off the mainframe on Friday and turn on your Unix or open systems machines with your database on it on Monday . |
| 21 | So we 're not proposing that you turn off the mainframe on Friday and turn on open systems on Monday . |
| 22 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 23 | She was already smiling when she arrived with her team — Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter , Prince Charles 's private secretary Richard Aylard and a man from her protection squad . |
| 24 | Joe was not smiling as he looked at her . |
| 25 | The two men picked their way along the line with the aid of a torch , but before they reached the bridge the Sergeant switched it off suggesting that they tread on the wooden sleepers and as softly as possible . |
| 26 | And the things is , they always laugh , they 're always laughing when they get on the train |
| 27 | He was still praying when he got in the water . |
| 28 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 29 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |
| 30 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |