Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast . |
| 2 | Push , push it back there , then you can carry on eating if you want to , then you can sit there |
| 3 | ‘ You have to be competitive to keep on competing but I try to instil the value of the social side of it in my dancers . |
| 4 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 5 | ‘ Important to whom — to Master Peachey ? ’ demanded Anne , thereby suggesting that she held the opinions of their tutor in contempt . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 8 | The television was switched on , Omi started a new piece of crochet-work , Herr Nordern abandoned his statistics , Frau Nordern her reports , and Paul , boldly and half-truthfully announcing that he had finished his homework , joined Erika on the sofa to watch a good thriller on West German television . |
| 9 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 10 | Polly James , as the matchmaker Frosine , is energetic and endlessly scheming as she attempts to marry off the daughter and her lover Valère , who is masquerading as the Miser 's steward , and the son and Mariane , who is also the object of the father 's desire . |
| 11 | I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? " |
| 12 | I suggest that the usual channels have a strong interest in seeing that they control this important piece of procedure . |
| 13 | Not out of Steve , anyway , who was saying nothing much , only affirming that he had bashed Charley to save his mother ; he had ‘ guessed ’ where she was . |
| 14 | So she kept her doubts to herself , merely remarking that everyone knew what Frenchmen were like and turning the whole thing into a rather laboured joke in which Iris eventually joined . |
| 15 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 16 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 17 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 18 | I feel , rather than see , Moira suddenly remembering that she has an awful lot of things to do somewhere else . |
| 19 | I 'm only going cos I got to . |
| 20 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 21 | She looked at him anxiously , obviously wondering if she 'd gone a little too far . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you regretting making love to me , ’ he grated , ‘ or are you only regretting that you made love to me instead of saving yourself for André ? ’ |
| 23 | When she got downstairs they were both waiting for her , so obviously waiting that she stopped dead and looked alarmed . |
| 24 | However , whilst both the HPV16 sequence and the HSV octamer could readily compete for binding of this protein , the HPV6 sequence could not do so confirming that it does not bind the cervical protein with high affinity ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 25 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 26 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 27 | His grin was so disarming that she blinked slightly . |
| 28 | I slept most of the way home only waking when we got back to Debenham . |
| 29 | Are you really constantly reassessing where you 've been ? |
| 30 | Until she was sixteen they had been constantly moving and there had never been anyone left behind to pass on her address . |