Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [subord] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are intimately involved in the situation which they are endeavouring to analyse so they are well placed to assess the accuracy and relevance of the information and also to interpret its significance . |
| 2 | How sad for those sailors never to receive a letter from home ; never to know if the families they had left behind were safe and well and managing to get enough to eat ; not even daring to wonder if they were still alive . |
| 3 | No the only thing that consumed me I was looking to see if there was anyway that material from the seat could be used to sort of target us for a mailing system or something like that |
| 4 | ‘ It 's no good thinking she 's going to come because she 's not , ’ called out Kraal from his shelter between bites at his new food . |
| 5 | What 's your brother going to do when he 's fully recovered from his injuries ? ’ |
| 6 | What was he going to do when he was back ? |
| 7 | I was going to knock for I was still intrigued by him but Benjamin called me so I let the matter rest . |
| 8 | I ca n't see that children 's perception of women is going to change until there are as many dads as mums waiting in the rain and , frankly , I think hell is likely to freeze over first . |
| 9 | Things are n't going to stay as they are now . |
| 10 | ‘ No , Mrs Sutherland , you look at me because I want to see you understanding what I 'm going to say 'cause I 'm never discussing this again with anyone . ’ |
| 11 | Now cross-examinations can not be prepared , because you can never be quite sure what the other side 's witnesses are going to say until they are actually in the box . |
| 12 | They knew something very bad was going to happen because they were quite prescient . |
| 13 | People are beginning to wonder whether he is actually human . |
| 14 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 15 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 16 | ‘ I was beginning to wonder if you were always so prickly . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm beginning to wonder if I was n't a bit impetuous offering him the job just like that . |
| 18 | And she was beginning to wonder if he was ever coming … |
| 19 | ‘ You ai n't got nuttin' to do while I 'm away up the Peace , not now Joanne and Betty is married . ’ |
| 20 | greeted by my secretary and the man with the feather brush , no one else having arrived as it is so early . |
| 21 | I knew a chap on the police force and pretty irritant and pure walking around the like each day , trying to see if there 's any . |
| 22 | I went straight to the hood of the Shogun , digging the Olympus out of the front of my overalls and trying to guess if there was enough light in the barn . |
| 23 | How could he be trying to escape when he was already chained ? |
| 24 | At least one constituency party , in West Fife , merrily put Connery on a short list for parliamentary candidate before bothering to ask if he was actually a party member . |