Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affixes used to mark tense or number ( e.g. he is paint ing or he paint s ) are known as inflectional affixes and those used to derive related words ( e.g. paint er or re paint ) are known as derivational affixes . |
| 2 | And those people that take or get extra , either their body is not producing or they want an extra bit for something so they can run a hundred yards at er in an extra five minutes . |
| 3 | I 'm just praying that we win it . |
| 4 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 5 | I am not , for example , denying that there occur mental processes . |
| 6 | And there is no point denying that I suffer from Denial , because this means only that I am guilty of Deep Denial . |
| 7 | But if they set it off without , without noticing that you 've gone like . |
| 8 | Mention the word ‘ contented ’ to many people , and they will think of a lazy diner , relaxing after a satisfying meal and announcing that they feel ‘ contented ’ ; others will recall the advertisements for evaporated milk , which ‘ came from contented cows ’ . |
| 9 | LOOP have ended two years of speculation by announcing that they have definitely split up . |
| 10 | Now the Times has never asked me to write a leading article announcing that I have some doubts about the quantum theory |
| 11 | Erm , the , I first tell people what to do because they all know their roles , and when you go in in the morning , and you 're just basically going round checking that they 've already done it all . |
| 12 | Yes , yes , And you 're sitting there in front of a client , checking that you 've got smoker and not non-smoker etcetera , etcetera . |
| 13 | It is a condition of booking that you take out travel insurance covering emergency repatriation and holiday cancellation . |
| 14 | It 's a condition of booking that you have medical insurance valid for our watersports activities , including a 24 hour call service for repatriation to UK if necessary ; local hospital care is primitive . |
| 15 | It 's a condition of booking that you have medical insurance valid for our watersports activities , including a 24 hour call service for repatriation to UK if necessary ; local hospital care is primitive . |
| 16 | Genesis tell us that , ‘ It is not good for the man to be alone , ’ revealing that we belong together . |
| 17 | It might be the opportunity of a world summit , or an earth summit , at which we can involve the public in Britain and throughout Europe in understanding that we have a common environment throughout the world . |
| 18 | The study of origins and influences is no substitute for looking directly at what these texts actually say and the very particular felt understanding that they mediate . |
| 19 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 20 | No one 's disputing that you 've done well . |
| 21 | So I carried on walking and they start going through this bleeding wood , well they had me climbing over three fence things , all like them metal you know like them metal fences at wood ? |
| 22 | I know , you see him , he 's walking and you see him , he 's going ruff , ruff and she 's going and I thought , no , man , I do n't care if I 'm friends with her no I 'm not going near her with the dog . |
| 23 | That 's why I 'm so thankful that I 'm on the reading and that I like sewing , I like walking and I 've made some very nice friends within easy walking distance , I can go out and have a coffee with them , because I , while I 'm recovering from the agony 's of from the finance |
| 24 | I wondered , sorry can I just explain , interrupting if you have the time . |
| 25 | Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time . |
| 26 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 27 | These things are still erm happening and we 've still got some major problems . |
| 28 | We were most anxious to keep the full informed of what 's happening and we seem to be on top of the job as it were . |
| 29 | But he 's also saying is n't he at the end of this paragraph , or he 's implying that th this is this revolution is not happening because we the communists are making it happen , it is happening and we need to react to it and somehow we 've therefore got a choice , we can either trail behind or we can lead it . |
| 30 | It 's like it 's it was a you know it 's been and still is an experience you know it 's sort of n none of us almost you know we we do n't realize it 's happening and you know you like back on the minutes of . |