Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I carry on walking till it 's really dark and all the cars have got their lights on . |
| 2 | Developments in antislavery — both the spread of local associations and the splitting off of the Agency campaign — were portrayed as only occurring when they were functionally necessary and productive of minimal conflict . |
| 3 | ‘ But I do n't suppose she 'll be doing much painting while I 'm here . ’ |
| 4 | He is also fiercely protective of that unbeaten record despite constantly saying that he 's only in boxing for the money . |
| 5 | The Collectanea , on the other hand , almost certainly influenced both the tone and direction of Henry 's statements on the subject , for unlike Tyndale its authors were not calling for Henry to seize new powers in order to reform the church , but were merely insisting that he was already head of the church and only needed to exercise a pre-existing authority . |
| 6 | They talked about a project together with director Hal Ashby , who was trying to raise finance for a film based upon a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( which Nicholson later made with Jessica Lange ) , but MGM pulled out because they did not think Michelle Phillips was a big enough name , not apparently appreciating that she was once a starring member of a world-famous singing quartet . |
| 7 | Therefore if you 've got a relationship with somebody and all you seem to constantly to be doing is constantly arguing and it 's either I win or you win you 're never gon na get out of that unless other time . |
| 8 | Her clutched hands are locked together showing that she is completely cut off in her emotions towards her husband . |
| 9 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |
| 10 | Hello tape recorder , you seemed to go off there for a while , I 'm just checking that you 're still working again , thanks very much . |
| 11 | But either it was not hunting or he was too big to tackle , for it disappeared over the heather ; and although he waited motionless for some time , it did not return . |
| 12 | I 'm not going if he 's there . |
| 13 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 14 | And , with his words ringing in her ears , she fled up the stairs , not relaxing until she was warmly cocooned in bed , with only her thoughts for company . |
| 15 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 16 | Er er and er I 'm not saying that there is necessarily , but even if there was she 's not going to because she wants to preserve her , her referrals . |
| 17 | I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits ! |
| 18 | I 'm just saying that he is here . |
| 19 | I 'm not breaking my stated rule here and recommending this hotel , just saying that it is there and that if you could get the back bedrooms you would have a most remarkable scene to look out on . |
| 20 | The industry was no longer floundering and there was far less chance of an idiosyncratic , sensational , or outspoken film . |
| 21 | DAVID FRENCH is the man who took over the Marriage Guidance Council , renamed it Relate and persuaded the Princess of Wales to become its patron , thus demonstrating that he was both tough and persuasive . |
| 22 | When they reach the base of the cliff they leap out of the waves , scrabbling for a foothold and not stopping until they are well out of reach of the sea . |
| 23 | No he 's not hiding cos he 's just at the back . |
| 24 | The brother and sister kissed goodbye , not knowing that they were never to see each other again . |
| 25 | He lay face down beside me , not knowing that I was now painfully aware that the threads which bound me to home and the inevitable marriage had snapped once and for all . |
| 26 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 27 | There is a risk that what is intended to be an aid only during training can become an undesirable crutch in that performance comes to depend on it but this is rare and can be avoided by using a suitable time delay , thus ensuring that it is really learning and not action feedback . |
| 28 | ( Elizabeth Wilson recorded once realising that she was more than usually anxious about the question of what to wear when she was going to talk to a feminist group . ) |
| 29 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 30 | It 's happening now , it 's always progressing and it 's always going on and you 're never going to reach an end point , you 're never going to reach a final point , whereas with something like history , I find it 's interesting , but you 're always going over and analysing what 's happened , it 's that much more backward looking , whereas science applied has got more constructive . |