Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 5 | The Gloucestershire rider says he does n't want to break any more bones , and wants to stop racing while he 's still giving value for money . |
| 6 | This information can be used in equation ( 3 ) to calculate the cost of equity finance : Assuming a corporation tax rate of 40 per cent , we now have all the information to use equation ( 1 ) to calculate the firm 's cost of capital : This is the appropriate cost of capital for this firm providing that it is only considering further investments that have the same risk characteristics as those previously evaluated , and that its gearing ( that is , the ratio of debt to equity ) is not expected to change in the foreseeable future . |
| 7 | I 'm hopeful with the royal family getting so involved in lobbies and British charities which do lobby , and for instance the anti-smoking lobby , where there 's somebody that 's supporting that there 's always going to be somebody who 's opposing that . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | I get the impression he agrees with what I 'm saying and he 's just shaking his head at the sheer extent of human deviousness and spite . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Claiming that it is merely cleaning up a technicality , the government , in clause 50 of the current finance bill , is cheerily trying to rewrite the law , retroactively , five years after the event . |
| 12 | Once he introduces them , the linguist can not simply retreat into claiming that he is only dealing with the abstractions of descriptive linguistics . |
| 13 | And what we say is , and what we 're trying to put over , I 'm su I 'm sure you 're fully aware of yourselves , is that it 's no good going around driving your drives thinking that it 's never going to happen to you . |
| 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 . |