Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says you should go , go jogging or something late at night . |
| 2 | I was shattered , but how could I defend myself by explaining that his hitherto unsuspected mistress had just rung me up to spill the beans ? ’ |
| 3 | Just send a cheque explaining that you only just got the letter . ’ |
| 4 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 5 | ‘ That was before the shrimp dish reached the dining-room ’ , said Milsom , revealing that he already knew a great deal about the evening . |
| 6 | The compelling analysis of this anecdote is then shown to have important implications for the reading of some familiar literary text , revealing that it too shares in the cultural presumptions critically uncovered in the anecdote . |
| 7 | The idea of going out to the suburb with the dog track , and confronting the confusions and embarrassments of his past life with the formidable armoury of maturity and understanding that he now possesses , appears suddenly very sweet . |
| 8 | The video work at this school revealed to some teachers the gap between their perception of what is happening and what really happens in the classroom . |
| 9 | Drachenfels left her dressed in some revealing clothing ( revealing if she still had a body , that is ) to top the effect off . |
| 10 | Spence , the 29-year-old Kent player , said : ‘ Some of the pin positions were difficult but all the greens are sloping and you just have to accept them . |
| 11 | He knew his mother was dying and he either could n't or would n't go to see her . |
| 12 | Cos we did n't want the four , th the ladies that she was with they knew what was happening but nobody else knew |
| 13 | ‘ It 's only me , ’ said Otley , ‘ I was worried , I thought you 'd fallen asleep and drowned yourself , been knocking but you never answered . ’ |
| 14 | I was just checking before I actually erm |
| 15 | ‘ Because I need the work , Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , her eyes twinkling as she gently raised the old lady a little and placed an extra pillow at her back . |
| 16 | Ed had doubts about Dee — he was a bit , kind of , uncool at times — just like Dee to carry on climbing when everyone else knew it was boring . |
| 17 | Once again , thanks for the best laugh I 've had since my friend Daniel fell out of a transit van I was driving when I unexpectedly chucked a right . |
| 18 | Luke moved closer , his arm brushing hers as he leant against the rail , one eyebrow quirking when she immediately moved away . |
| 19 | We saw herds of stags and although we never actually walked for a day when we did n't see anyone else , there was a week of walking when we only saw one other person for every day . |
| 20 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 21 | Here are some of the details of all winners plus an example of their work , proving that they really are the cream of the U.K. crop ! |
| 22 | ‘ There 'll be a bit off for luck ? ’ he asked , proving that he still retained some of the guile he had picked up as a practising country lawyer . |
| 23 | ( You will have noticed , I trust , that there is no mention of my walking stick and my gloves in this kiosk episode , thus proving that I certainly do not need to use them . |
| 24 | Burns and Stalker ( 1961 ) offer us a more sophisticated version of this approach by suggesting that we also need to take into account the context within which different types of organisations operate . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the symptoms of even full-blown affective psychosis and schizophrenia overlap considerably , suggesting that they simply represent different ways in which a common tendency to insanity can manifest itself . |
| 26 | Although clay crystals theoretically could store the same prodigious quantities of information as DNA or laser discs can , nobody is suggesting that they ever did . |
| 27 | If other Victorian novelists do not set fire to their great houses with as much frequency as Dickens , they tend in other ways to undermine them , suggesting that they too perceive them , not merely as fabrics , but as expressions of an outmoded system . |
| 28 | The two bands near 760 cm -1 and 850 cm -1 are affected only slightly in frequency by the substitution of Br for Cl , suggesting that they too are essentially deformation modes . |
| 29 | In limiting the concept of social representations to these sons of phenomena , Moscovici is denying that social representations can be found in all societies , and suggesting that they only emerge under certain social conditions . |
| 30 | While I am not suggesting that you immediately dismantle an arrangement of flowers , perhaps after a day or two you could carefully remove a leaf or two , and a few flowers . |