Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 2 | Hello tape recorder , you seemed to go off there for a while , I 'm just checking that you 're still working again , thanks very much . |
| 3 | It is a condition of booking that you are adequately insured on your holiday . |
| 4 | The procedure continues for weeks with the man unable to tell the girl that he still buys the ticket even though he no longer has a car , and the girl not wanting to hurt his feelings by revealing that she is just taking a short cut , walking through the car park on her way to W. H. Smith . |
| 5 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 6 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 7 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 8 | Despite this apparent endorsement , SCO wo n't say whether it has even made a decision yet , suggesting that it is still trying to picture a future for OSF/1 , given the lack of industry support for it and the shadows cast by OSF 's re-focusing . |
| 9 | Fabia ended the call realising that she was quite looking forward to stretching her legs with Azor . |
| 10 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 11 | I try it for a bit — you know , pretending that I 'm all frozen , but someone on a bike comes down the path and I got to move to get out the way . |
| 12 | On the issue of business confidence , the study revealed that economic confidence was returning , with 77 per cent of companies surveyed believing that they were well placed to lead the country out of recession . |
| 13 | ‘ Some other time , ’ he said , clearly believing that she was only stalling . |
| 14 | Remembering that we are here dealing with a community first to exile and then returned to an impoverished and divided land ( i.e. |
| 15 | Dr Jaffery rustled around the room , picking up books and looking behind cushions for his mosque cap before remembering that he was already wearing it . |
| 16 | As we have seen earlier , this is a Freudian term implying that they are still committed to the ‘ pleasure principle ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ He was told in writing that he was only going to be narrating for five minutes of the video , which is not what happened . |
| 18 | These features are worth remembering if you are currently exploring a new stretch of river . |
| 19 | Excuse me for swearing but I 'm just repeating what she said … |
| 20 | He had been told very little , and even that he had difficulty in remembering because he was so filled with excitement and anticipation . |
| 21 | This crater was known as the Etang Sec , or dry tarn , a name worth remembering because it was later to become the focus of the eruption proper . |
| 22 | ( ‘ And their void shields are overlapping because they 're so figging close together ! |
| 23 | A chill October breeze forced its way through countless gaps and alleys in the structures surrounding them , tugging and pushing when it was least expected , lifting Diane 's hair and flicking it across her face . |
| 24 | These costs of consent to political authority suggest that , on instrumental grounds , consent can only be held binding if it is so qualified that its effect is almost entirely confined to reinforcing independently existing obligations to obey . |
| 25 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 26 | He had been fiercely possessive , racked by an agony of passionate wanting and yet somehow retaining sufficient control to assert his mastery , denying her fulfilment , waiting until she was almost weeping with desire , as if he needed to hear her husky throbbing pleas confirming his dominion in the relationship . |
| 27 | Are keepi You are I mean obviously you are keeping yourself going cos you 're obviously getting out to come here and do bits and bobs but |
| 28 | Why do you bother paying and we were just mucking about you know , like I know something |
| 29 | And , with his words ringing in her ears , she fled up the stairs , not relaxing until she was warmly cocooned in bed , with only her thoughts for company . |
| 30 | You know that 's all now going if you 're just talking about the flats area . |