Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 2 | ‘ Any bit of education or speaking I know I learned from Seth , ’ she says . |
| 3 | However much help or coaching you get , you have to do it yourself . ’ |
| 4 | ( For example , if a comparison of a new intervention is made with current practice , minimum practice , or doing nothing do I agree that in my setting the same comparison programme would apply ? ) |
| 5 | We all need a myth of some kind , whether it 's in living forever , in Communism or thinking you come from Sirius . |
| 6 | Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it . |
| 7 | If you can not afford the furniture or floorcovering you want , further trips to shops or markets , or looking at suppliers ' catalogues , should give you more inspiration . |
| 8 | I 've er , I 've lost about a stone in a couple of months or so , that 's all , but it 's er better than gaining I suppose . |
| 9 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 10 | And maybe the solution would be regular one-to-one meeting for ten minutes in the morning , and you could get rid of all this garbage , in one go , rather than having him wander in , or her wander in , at any particular time , you know , and just disrupt your flow . |
| 11 | Than having you know , break all the alarms and everything else . |
| 12 | You 're free to you know the seventy five percent rather than saying I 've got thirty four or something like that . |
| 13 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 14 | Naturally he could n't forbear from upsetting me , nor ruining what slim remaining chance I had of being like anyone — let alone everyone — else . |
| 15 | The latter are shapes so memorable that knowing they exist matters more than actually seeing them . |
| 16 | Unexpected things that emerging you have to do there and then , like |
| 17 | If you intend to insert subtitles at a later editing stage ( rather than superimposing them live at the time of shooting ) , you will need to reserve space for these on the tape by shooting overlength material which can subsequently be erased and over-recorded by the insert . |
| 18 | It is precisely because our bodies and fantasies are so closely linked that feeling you do n't conform to the current ‘ skinny ’ aesthetic can have such detrimental effects on the way you feel about your body and concomittantly , yourself . |
| 19 | After I 've stopped chucking and coughing they restart the video and we cut to the other scene and the tall hospital chair and the little guy again with empty eyes and McDunn says his bit about Persistent Vegetative State . |
| 20 | These days , of course , now that I am a grown woman , I would have little problem with saying I was feeling ill and suggesting we take a break for a few minutes . |
| 21 | A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink . |
| 22 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 23 | But an MP says he 'll be taking up the case , and demanding it go back to the courts for a stiffer sentence . |
| 24 | Well , you said you know you , we were on about Germany and , and becoming you know could it happen again ? |
| 25 | So Ruth wrote at once , asking Maria to postpone her visit and bidding her take care of herself . |
| 26 | Alright , I do n't recommend doing diagrams cos you spend five , five ten minutes drawing the diagram and explaining you know , what the curves are on it , erm , so you do n't really need to draw , draw diagrams in these short answer questions . |
| 27 | Our resorts have been carefully selected for the range of walking , rambling , swimming and boating they offer . |
| 28 | After bathing and dressing we wander down to the surprisingly well attended dining room for Christmas lunch . |
| 29 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 30 | And the grisly , whey-faced businessmen , queasily jocular , and what do they expect , drinking like pigs and pretending they travel by private jet every day ? |