Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] and [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started walking away and he 's still walking kind of fast , so I grabbed his sweater from the back and pulled on it to slow him down . |
| 2 | you know trying to find an assistant cos there was n't one walking about cos there was some at the tills but there were n't any walking around and it was very busy , there were lots of people going through the tills . |
| 3 | ‘ When you went to sleep , you were coasting along and everything was just floating . |
| 4 | Erm we have the graduates who we 're training up and they 're not very good and drop us in the mire sometimes . |
| 5 | He wasted no time in looking round and it was only when he was backing the van to drive away that his face could be seen . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's something strange going on and we 're not getting any nearer , and look , there 's some fog detectors clamped on the rail . ’ |
| 7 | Now I could not hear what was going on and I was quite sure nobody could hit a ball , or whatever they use in baseball , away out where I was standing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And the peedie fairy was just delighted to start with but soon realized that there was something kind of fishy going on and it was n't a very happy place . |
| 10 | I er I phoned him up to let him know I was going in and he 's not too far away you see so asked him if he 'd like to pop in so he did about half eleven . |
| 11 | I 'm going away and I 'm not coming back . ’ |
| 12 | And some people , you know they , they managed to , you know they did n't have their husbands there and they were going home and they were wonderfully relieved and for others obviously it was , you know there is still a lot of emotion . |
| 13 | When your mother was sort of having a lot of a lot of children and and after you you know you you were growing up and she was still having children erm had you any idea of erm the processes by which all this was coming about ? |
| 14 | She 's growing up and I 'm not there . |
| 15 | By shading in charts , the villagers visually appreciate which areas of life seem to be growing well and which are already becoming problematic or will become difficult in the near future . |
| 16 | The chap you saw in the druid outfit got them going again and he 's still the king-pin . ’ |
| 17 | However , original or commercial sin keeps breaking in and there is undoubtedly a great deal of badly seasoned wood on the market . |
| 18 | She said to her in the week when she rung she wo n't ring until I thought it was like midnight last night she was getting in and she was n't gon na ring till today but it 'll be tomorrow she 'll ring her . |
| 19 | I felt I could hardly lift my arm to comb my hair it was such an effort ; but most of all I got so depressed knowing everything was piling up and I was n't doing anything about it , and soon I would n't be able to . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're not getting up and you 're not going out . ’ |
| 21 | Erm I , I wo n't go into them because you know basically erm I think the three main ones reflect the fact that he 's saying the peasants are rising up and they 're not only changing their political views erm but are obviously changing their cultural values as well according to , to , according to what he suggests . |
| 22 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 23 | In my opinion the qualities mentioned are sadly lacking today and it is very refreshing to meet somebody like John who is so conscientious . |
| 24 | Tap , tap , tap , sparks flying everywhere and we were just above it with the cranes , waiting to fill the big ladles . |
| 25 | The evenings were drawing out and it was not yet dark but the hall of Moorlake was shadowy and insubstantial in the twilight . |
| 26 | I almost caused an accident coming back from Bedford yesterday , there 's somebody in an X R three i right up my arse so I just coming onto the motorway , the M four to Bracknell and erm comes right up my arse and I had to come out cos there was this car coming on you know , from further up the the lane and it was coming on and I was already on , so I overtook it let it did to let it come out you know ? |
| 27 | There was no great amount of money coming in and one was continually minding the pennies . |
| 28 | yeah you 'll still get it to you , you 'll still get cancer with it cos er , it 's coming through and you 're still getting it on your chest |
| 29 | and then coming back and it 's not fucking working properly ! |
| 30 | We had originally intended to try our hand at clay pigeon shooting or perhaps even gliding , but our time was running out and there was still so much we wanted to see . |