Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan .
2 ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’
3 Joe just put your hand up now just put your hand up I 'm just seeing that you remember your number .
4 I try to pretend it is not happening but I know it is . ’
5 I 'm just praying that we win it .
6 this idea pettiness you know , but you 're just waiting while they get their load done , to come up with some suggestion .
7 Erm I 'm just calling because I hear you 've written a book on Irish water spaniels .
8 I mean , no , I 'm not kidding when you drag them from where I am , down to the scales that 's fucking hard work mate !
9 an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education .
10 Keith Ward of Physics , and myself , followed him around carefully noting his choices and resolutely not commenting lest we influence him .
11 ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened .
12 I 'm not asking that it transfer its estate , I 'm asking that it should make a contribution because it will then show that we 're committed to this very important initiative .
13 But they 're not fighting because they 've nobody no , national officials to fight for them .
14 I was just thinking if we take her out that afternoon .
15 ‘ Alarm bells are not ringing but I hope nobody thinks we 're too good to go down .
16 ‘ You 're not leaving till I scan you , ’ she sang .
17 It is never a bad plan , particularly with such plants as artemisias , penstemons or santolinas , to take cuttings at least every second year , thus ensuring that you have plenty of replacement stock on the way .
18 They 're also supremely naive if they do n't think at some point in the future that MCA will hike out a similar compilation to the one Phonogram just have … that 's always assuming that they sort themselves out enough to have the required amount of hits .
19 Maggie had stayed quiet , gone home thinking if you think you 're oppressed mate then listen to this .
20 Feelings of guilt are really about a sense of unentitlement ; in thinking that your desires and feelings are wrong or ‘ silly ’ you are also saying that you feel you are wrong or silly , and not entitled to be taken seriously , or helped .
21 ‘ You do realise you 're going to get the Press really going when they see you this evening , do n't you ?
22 honourable member what he 's really saying as I understand it Madam Speaker is there 's too much bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is going to prevent anybody acting because they 're all overlapping , they 're all paid out of presumably the public purse as well , there 's a there 's a enormous number of public off officials that is preventing er a a clear direct , exes executive arm .
23 Right you have to come I think the basis of this evening was to get people to come along and put there points of view and to say what 's happening and what is n't happening and I think we can take that take that away and considerate it yes I mean I I think the board or the management committee will be happy to meet with people to discuss the use of the theatre er what it 's used for what might what the unhappiness is if there is unhappiness and the positive and the positive as well as the negative points yes .
24 The counterpart for our experimental data is not so straightforward , since the subjects do not report their reservation values ( even assuming that they have them ) .
25 It 's no good sat there saying if I see it , we 've got to get some
26 In Ireland , even in high summer they say , never bet on mirages ; as you approach ever closer to those distant shimmering patches , they go on shimmering until they force you to detour around them — or get wet .
27 " It is n't , after all , as though we had any reason for not having them , because now that Amelia and Magnus and Gabriel are all married there 's plenty of room , and my parents are anyway worried , politically speaking if you know what I mean , about having so much empty house ( though he 's hardly the kind of tenant that that kind of consideration would provide ) , and he even pays some rent from time to time .
28 Well , it 's not a positive action that is noted , as we 're actually saying that we 've we 've read it , basically .
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