Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 2 | He broke off in mid-sentence , as if suddenly realising who he was talking to , and abruptly left her for Mary Deare . |
| 3 | You can safely let your hero move from one person to another fiercely demanding what he needs to know . |
| 4 | He is often very callous to Lennie and is constantly reminding him what his life could be like without Lennie . |
| 5 | One technique is to divert your approach away from merely absorbing what you are told in books or lecture notes , and try to write down , and answer , as many questions as you can about each page . |
| 6 | Then she followed his gaze to the wine glasses , suddenly understanding what he was thinking . |
| 7 | Mrs Barnes , returned to her cottage , amazingly kept her silence for twelve years , only revealing what she knew to a local magistrate , Anthony Bridges in 1587 . |
| 8 | Gently disengaging himself he walked on and saw Lord John Rossendale waiting to present himself and , with him , a young , pretty and under-dressed girl who somehow looked familiar . |
| 9 | Witnessing is not ramming your opinions and beliefs down someone else 's ear trumpet but gently explaining what you believe . |
| 10 | when when you do that , and obviously the need to gauge the erm presentation against audience contact to see that they 're involved and they 're obviously understanding what you 're saying and pick them up and grab them . |
| 11 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 12 | As it was , de Lattre constantly held out the prospect of Chinese intervention , apparently believing it himself and certainly capitalizing on it in the US . |
| 13 | That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why . |
| 14 | That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why . |
| 15 | She stopped abruptly , suddenly wondering what she was doing , telling him about her life . |
| 16 | I 'm merely recalling what you yourself have indicated regarding your involvement with women . |
| 17 | There are certain inconsistencies in Leandre 's story , but he was obviously describing what he had experienced as well as he could remember it . |
| 18 | Nor is the subject referred to again until nearly two years later , when he surprised everyone by suddenly disclosing what he had heard at the Council and proposed to carry out fully in future . |
| 19 | There ; I have just used the expression ‘ Do you see what I mean ? ’ and now you are attending to it , perhaps wondering what I am going to say about it . |
| 20 | I feel what companies are looking for is an available skilled workforce , not the opportunity to get a lot of unemployed people at a very low wage so , I 'm basically supporting what you 've said . |
| 21 | Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life , |
| 22 | As she gave a brief nod he continued , ‘ The Meadowses have been incredibly kind , and are obviously doing what they can to make us feel welcome . |
| 23 | Literary criticism has often taken precisely this assumption as its starting point , and has presumed that a literary text is not necessarily saying what it intends to say or even what it appears to say — hence the need for critical interpretation . |
| 24 | Er swearing the papers basically saying who you are that this is the will er that er the person 's died of course er a and that you 're the person entitled to be a . |
| 25 | He was merely relaying what he heard over his deaf-aid . |
| 26 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 27 | He was only saying what I felt . |
| 28 | But these great footballing stars of yesteryear are all doing what they do second best — telling football jokes . |
| 29 | I know but it 's only giving you one |
| 30 | ‘ Like , you read in the News of the World that it 's disgusting , but we 're only doing what we want to do . ’ |