Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not that the most open admission yet that , despite the honeyed words of the Secretary of State for Scotland , he has done nothing , is doing nothing and will do nothing to intervene in any way to help to save the Ravenscraig plant ? |
| 2 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 3 | Make the best of a bad job and busy yourself doing something that 'll keep you out of the firing line . |
| 4 | First , the hon. Gentleman is terrified of saying anything that would upset his trade union paymasters ; secondly , he is afraid to do anything that would remind the electorate of the chains that bind his party to those paymasters — the bosses of the trade unions . |
| 5 | As subject , Edmund acts for himself , doing anything that will advance him : Goneril and Regan live by the same principle . |