Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , there is always the milkman : one of society 's front-line social workers , who has saved the lives of countless elderly people by noticing that there is something amiss and alerting neighbours or the police . |
| 2 | Realising that there was nothing more she could get out of him , Folly signed mechanically , and the man gave an exaggerated sigh of relief . |
| 3 | It is impossible to believe in the journey of the spirit without believing that there is something else after this life . |
| 4 | Do not set your goals too high or else you will always be failing and there is nothing more demoralising . |
| 5 | It is remarkable that this reform , which is so like that at democratic Athens , was the work of oligarchs , showing that there is nothing distinctively democratic about Kleisthenes ' tribal changes , although Herodotus says Kleisthenes introduced the tribes and the democracy , in that order ( vi.131 ) . |
| 6 | He started chatting and there was nobody else on the bus and I said to him what are they ? |