Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 2 | Your life has just begun and you 're walking across what turns out to be Salisbury Plain . |
| 3 | But then the baby would stir in its sleep and put up one tiny pink hand , perhaps seeking for something to hold on to . |
| 4 | The origins are often to be found by watching and listening to what goes on in the Soccer Specials — the trains and coaches which fans hire to transport themselves to away games . |
| 5 | At first I could not believe you thought this was the house and later … well , I enjoyed listening to you going on about it . |
| 6 | They were shouting at her to get on with it . |
| 7 | ‘ I found there were limitations on conveying a point of view or a situation , and I suddenly thought : you can get a lot more information out of looking at something made up from several pictures . |
| 8 | ‘ I found there were limitations on conveying a point of view or a situation , and I suddenly thought : you can get a lot more information out of looking at something made up from several pictures . |
| 9 | She was staring straight past me , sitting very still , as though waiting for somebody to come out of the house . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 11 | We were waiting for them to turn up at Hamish and Tone 's but they never showed . |
| 12 | Cos he 'll eat them , he 'll be stood there waiting for them coming out of the blooming oven ! |
| 13 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 14 | Was he waiting for me to come in with him ? |
| 15 | Maybe there was some difficulty about Lilian 's dress or he was waiting for her to get back from the hairdresser 's . |
| 16 | ‘ You asked me what monks were , ’ he said , turning , waiting for her to catch up with him . |
| 17 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 18 | Sat waiting for it to come back to life . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's this fascinating gestation period between listening to something and waiting for it to come out in your playing . |
| 20 | They had fallen , both of them , he could picture it exactly in his mind , and he could remember Kairallah , calling to him to get back to the car . |
| 21 | Whereas make focusses on the mere producing of an effect , get evokes something which precedes the effect — prolonged efforts in ( 170b ) , persuasion winning out over unwillingness in ( 171b ) — and so to must be used before the infinitive to represent the latter 's event as a result coming after what led up to it . |
| 22 | ‘ They are children on the brink , at the end of their tether , and we ca n't be saying to them come back in 50 weeks . ’ |
| 23 | If Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
| 24 | Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
| 25 | It was worst for the very short , like the fat girl she could see between face and face and back of head , standing with nothing to hold on to , supported by those who surrounded her , her head under the men 's elbows , a woman 's handbag , clutched under an arm , driving its hard corners into her throat . |
| 26 | And if the tape recorder had n't been rolling with me playing around on guitar , some of the songs would never have happened ; I would never have remembered them . |
| 27 | Those are rocks and you are sitting on them gazing out to sea . |
| 28 | The spoilt , black-haired girl sitting beside him staring out at the river . |
| 29 | But , as it happens , I took no advice at all before embarking on what turned out to be a disturbing exploration of my own personality . |
| 30 | Willis had noticed Woodie 's return , and could be seen gesturing behind the window of the deckhouse , expressing joy , pointing him out to Janet , and waving to him to come on in . |