Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [is] [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 He is also fiercely protective of that unbeaten record despite constantly saying that he 's only in boxing for the money .
3 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 .
4 Her clutched hands are locked together showing that she is completely cut off in her emotions towards her husband .
5 Well I was only thinking that there 's not much on the television so
6 I 'm not going if he 's there .
7 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 .
8 But in any case I 'm not complaining if it 's back to the days of sitting downstairs with a brandy and soda while midwives rush about boiling water and collecting towels .
9 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 .
10 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 !
11 I 'm just saying that he is here .
12 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 .
13 No he 's not hiding cos he 's just at the back .
14 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 .
15 Or if they do evaluate then it 's to say it 's not working but it 's not our fault , there could n't possibly be anything wrong with our thinking on this subject or this issue .
16 So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim .
17 Ah but she ca n't help it can she but it puts you off going when he 's in dun n it ?
18 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 .
19 Mm it 's probably shaking cos it 's up there my leg does that sometimes .
20 Happily carrying on doing that it 's not going to be every enquiry has to do that .
21 Often sounding like there 's no one driving , Mark 's recipe for recording involves bringing the barest bones of a song into the studio , letting the musicians bend it , stretch it , squash it , cook it and generally rip it to shreds , before setting about trying to sort out the sparks from the farts .
22 Erm it seems to me that the emphasis has changed slightly in the representations being made by the West Yorkshire authorities and that they 're now saying that it 's much more difficult for them to accommodate housing developments within their own er districts .
23 Deletions and point mutations of this gene were detected in eight unrelated XLA patients , strongly suggesting that it is directly involved in the disease and , therefore , in the process of B-cell development .
24 As for Egypt , I do not think that the hon. and learned Gentleman is seriously suggesting that it is about to launch an attack on Israel , or is to be feared in that connection .
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