Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush is recovering after he collapsed during a banquet in Japan . |
| 2 | ( So much so that , although I believe in God , my great difficulty is accepting that he believes in us ! ) |
| 3 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 4 | We were most anxious to keep the full informed of what 's happening and we seem to be on top of the job as it were . |
| 5 | So , if he was going , if he , he 's walking and he breaks into , a breaks into a trot , |
| 6 | This is what Thomas S. Szasz is implying when he writes about ‘ definition ’ : ‘ In the animal kingdom , the rule is eat or be eaten ; in the human kingdom , define or be defined . |
| 7 | Er , there are , I think it 's ten columns and thirty one rows , erm , so that you can plot where your money is going if you need to . |
| 8 | Well erm two families discover how the divide between north and south is narrowing and one lives at Wigan one family lives at Wigan and the other family , no er yeah the other family live at Bedford . |
| 9 | He said from experience that in using an agency it was extremely difficult to get even a small number of carers , quote , you know who is coming when they arrive through the door , unquote . |
| 10 | What we will be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that customers can see before they enter into the transaction and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic . |
| 11 | No , what we would be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that the customers can see before they enter into the transaction , and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic . |
| 12 | Aunt Emily said , ‘ If you read it , dear child , it will take away your fear , ’ and Alexandra , stubbornly remembering Michael Swinton 's saying that she seemed to be working out her own salvation and feeling that the decision to read the journal must be part of that working out , shook her head and sent her needle stabbing in and out of the canvas . |
| 13 | I ca n't make any sense of what he 's saying because it seems to me that erm our common and everyday and perhaps very deficient notion of individuation is , what makes me different from the rest of you ? |
| 14 | I appreciate the point that my hon. Friend is making and I know of his support for museums and galleries in York and in Yorkshire . |
| 15 | It enables you as the writer to tell the reader just as much of what your detective is thinking as you want to . |
| 16 | The phone is ringing as I come through the door of my office . |
| 17 | The phone is ringing as I fumble with the key , my bladder is bursting and as I fall into the room I 'm undecided which call to answer first . |
| 18 | Potential meaning is meaning as it resides in the speaker 's unconscious even when he is not speaking . |