Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No grumblers there believe me and to walk past them would be to hear them singing while you work . |
| 2 | I have seen them leaving Stronsay after a dance and you would still have heard them singing when they reached Papay . |
| 3 | ‘ I have 12 or 13 players who can hold their own with the best in the League but injuries would leave me struggling and I know it . ’ |
| 4 | I 've learnt a lot , my job depends on me driving and it 's made me realise how much I can drink , how much I ca n't drink , what I can drink and realising about road accidents . |
| 5 | ‘ You would have no objection to my going when I feel ready to do so ? ’ |
| 6 | We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time Am I waiting until I become a little older ? |
| 7 | What am I wearing as I pine for the future , |
| 8 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 9 | What am I saying as we sit here talking about this rather strange difficulty that we find ourselves in ? |
| 10 | Nor , incidentally , will there be any point in my arguing that I have voted for Hazel on personal grounds and with no political intention : Hazel is a Nutty Party candidate and will if elected accept that Party 's whip . |
| 11 | One or two people looked , I 've seen them looking but they 've not actually questioned . |
| 12 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 13 | The cab swerved into the Place de la Concorde , she felt them whirling as they joined the vortex round the obelisk as if in a fairground swing as it lifts and spins . |
| 14 | Yu acting like yu care |
| 15 | He strode on ahead of her , rather than waiting for her to join him as he would normally have done , and the slightly calculated rudeness had her frowning as she followed him into his office . |
| 16 | The river-bank echoed with their shouts and laughter and their splashing as they washed . |
| 17 | And now he found himself wondering whether she knew or guessed about Amy . |
| 18 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 19 | Right , one thing that you need when somebody speaks is inverted commas okay or speech marks , name , if you read it out aloud name ask the doctor , the inverted commas come here because name is somebody speaking and it tells you that somebody is speaking here , it says asks okay say asked . |
| 20 | He had found himself begging and it made him feel undignified . |
| 21 | Because if we do n't we then run the risk of being injured ourselves erm somebody alleging that they did n't realise they were police officers and therefore shot at us because they thought we were invading their territory or something . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll want nobody leaving until I say so , ’ said Perkins . |
| 23 | He ca n't stop himself smiling as he delivers the clich de grace : ‘ My hands are tied . ’ |
| 24 | The devil , Trent thought , and found himself smiling as he realised that continual fear had acted as a drug , lifting him free of reality in the same way that marathon runners broke through the pain barrier into an almost hallucinatory state of calm . |
| 25 | ‘ They have lost confidence , but Martin is just the player who can get them going and I think you will see their true character soon . |
| 26 | I said and there 's there 's me panicking like I said I said I 'm going grey as it is now I said without worrying about |
| 27 | ‘ My father saw me going and it frightened me . |
| 28 | Realistically , I 've been applying for the sort of job that will pay me enough money to keep me going when I retire . |
| 29 | It 's the thought of you that keeps me going when I begin to flag or feel a bit faint-hearted … |
| 30 | ‘ It took virtually the whole of my grandmother 's legacy to buy out the lease — all I 've got left is a bit to keep me going until I start to show a profit . |