Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , for most managers , firing someone is not a pleasant experience . |
| 2 | The more seasoned liggers , of course , simply went around nicking everyone 's else 's drinks . |
| 3 | ‘ Checking everyone 's out , ’ whispered Geoffrey . |
| 4 | As Box puts it , a person accused of stabbing someone is not likely just to be charged with ‘ carrying an offensive weapon ’ . |
| 5 | The very idea of Kenneth Williams protecting anyone is so ridiculous that it is laughable , but Halliwell did n't see things that way . |
| 6 | The whole atmosphere discourages sharing one 's more personal feelings . |
| 7 | I mean it 's six hundred quid for doing nothing in n it ? |
| 8 | In the words of the regional secretary , sitting there and doing nothing is no longer an option . |
| 9 | No I do n't think that 's , sorry , I think it is perfectly possible for Stella to make this assumption to get them changed and to come with the revised version which says , which is apparently what Jenny has done here , this looks to me , in a not unreasonable way , it looks , she is saying something is there , this must be an example of what Stella means , data can be stored in three different ways where clearly previously that said four different ways . |
| 10 | Misplacing something is also an example of a parapraxis . |
| 11 | All they found was whatever was in their imaginations ( not to be despised of course , but the reality of finding something is not available ) . |
| 12 | Tanks and guns bombarding one 's inside seemed totally out of place , so I sought inspiration in earlier times , in the knowledge that what was once just as hideous has , over the years been softened by children 's books , Morte d'Arthur and the legends of chivalry . |
| 13 | May we not fall into the temptation of thinking something is right just because we can get away with it . |
| 14 | D' ya know what our Michael says when he he 's telling anybody 's not there he 's coming up here ? |
| 15 | It might provide a temporary suspension of concern about school work , being bullied , or growing up ( or feeling one is not growing up ) . |
| 16 | Furthermore , of the two opposite currents of feeling , the positive , needing one is probably the older and more fundamental . |