Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [adv] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't believe what was happening and yet there was still more to come . |
| 2 | ‘ They had n't tested the French market at all before opening and so everything was just delivered from Wales , hung up and not thought about . |
| 3 | Yeah no but I mean passive smoking is just that 's , that 's , that 's the way that self erm s smoking is so selfish because you ca n't get away , you know , whether you 're not smoking or not you 're still getting the worst from it . |
| 4 | Some people are worried about eating and here we are off on this whole rock 'n' roll circus . |
| 5 | There , that manoeuvre is known as gybing but really it 's as simple as that , sailing downwind you do n't have to change course very often , unlike when we 're sailing upwind with tacking but we need to show you a few more demonstrations about it in quick succession . |
| 6 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She has tried very hard to stop him stealing but now she is so fed up she just wants to move away and try to make a fresh start in a new home . ’ |
| 7 | That might be having and again we 're not looking for you to do these or follow these patterns for tomorrow , you do whatever you feel comfortable , yeah . |
| 8 | You can drive along a motorway for years and see nothing , but once you learn the quivering shape above the verge is a hovering kestrel looking for voles in the short grass , it becomes difficult to pass a kestrel ever again without mentally noting what it is , what it is doing and why it is there . |
| 9 | You do n't cos you do n't get all these things but Christine has the New Scientist every week and I do n't know why it 's always us , but you wan na read that sometimes , I do n't read a lot cos I do n't understand it but some of the things that some of the countries are doing and yet it 's always us . |
| 10 | He 's there , and I can ring him up and report to him when he er er , how they 've gone , how they 're feeding , how they 're doing and how they 're not . |
| 11 | This was done in case my main culture got fouled by overfeeding and hence I was always able to start a new culture if necessary . |
| 12 | That 's not unusual , because I quite often find that one partner 's not working and therefore they 're not using up their tax allowance so at retirement or before , I can move money into their name , and there are good reasons for doing that . |
| 13 | It 's , all this is showing really is that when we do multiplication normally , you see if you , if you 've done this sort of multiplication , you 've seen the pattern and how things are working and how you 're not , someone says to you multiply erm seventeen by a hundred and one . |
| 14 | Sometimes I 'm working and sometimes I 'm not . |