Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She almost asked whether he had not been there the previous Friday but stopped , unsure whether he had forgotten or was deliberately misleading her . |
| 2 | If not , and he 's picking the frog out of everyone who has or is still playing for the team , surely Strachan 's contribution far outweighs anything done by the Frog . |
| 3 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
| 4 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 5 | Along the inland , mostly mountainous boundary , despite the efforts of the joint delimitation commission , much remained to be clarified and was still causing difficulties in 1980 . |
| 6 | I think you will destroy them ; you are a ruthless woman ; how ruthless I am yet to know and am just beginning to discern . |
| 7 | Regretfully , this weekend has had to be cancelled as is now living in Malaysia and is unable to fulfil her commitment . |
| 8 | This means that people who have suffered or are currently suffering from schizophrenia need to be able to withdraw from arousing circumstances , but that the extreme understimulation which could sometimes be found in an old-fashioned mental hospital should equally be avoided . |
| 9 | They especially fear that a bridge across the beck at Iburndale near Whitby is threatened and are now pressing the North Yorkshire highways committee to investigate the problem . |
| 10 | Some members of staff at the school felt that it had suffered and was still suffering from the effects of the reorganization . |
| 11 | Today there is much public concern about the amount of incest that occurs and is now coming to light . |
| 12 | If Skipper had been an older horse who knew what he should do and was simply messing about , a reprimand might have been in order . |
| 13 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 14 | Markby asked twice if she were cold and she knew he 'd noticed and was politely trying to find out what was wrong . |
| 15 | Another im prominent toxoid vaccine which you should all have received and be regularly receiving boosters for is the tetanus vaccine , and really , a very similar situation pertains here , that the toxin is so important in the pathogenesis of disease , tetanus , that simply immunity to that one factor can lead to immunity er to the disease as a whole . |
| 16 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 17 | Perhaps the woman had already met Jesus previously , had changed her immoral life , in so doing had realised that her sins had been forgiven and was now showing gratitude for this . |
| 18 | along with Terry Snow , have kindly agreed to serve as Chairmen of the Advisory Panels to which I have referred and are currently agreeing the terms of reference and membership of the Panels . |
| 19 | Even in the corn-exchange of a country town on a market-day the equilibrium price is affected by calculations of the future relations of production and consumption ; while in the leading corn-markets of America and Europe dealings for future delivery already predominate and are rapidly weaving into one web all the leading threads of trade in corn throughout the whole world . |
| 20 | Outside , huge stars blazed like shaggy white chrysanthemums ; the moon had stopped blushing and was now flooding the pampas with ghostly silver light . |
| 21 | Local mothers have formed and are now administering Scotland 's first Gaelic-speaking pre-school playgroups . |
| 22 | The material was then taken back to the laboratory , where the real work was undertaken and is still going on . |
| 23 | She could not abide snuff-taking and was always going on about Florrie Axford 's nasty habits . |
| 24 | The SNM withdrew and is now laying siege to Hargeisa and four other garrisons in the region . |
| 25 | If the bride 's mother has subsequently remarried but is jointly hosting the occasion with the bride 's father : Mr Charles Brown and Mrs David Green … their daughter . |
| 26 | To remain near the screens , he and Elaine had to stand close to the strange woman called Lacuna , but even Lacuna seemed less threatening than the jungle of lines and forms that were still proliferating everywhere else in the room . |
| 27 | " The changeable international situation , " he said , " has affected and is still affecting Xinjiang 's social stability . |
| 28 | Someone will be exempt if they have a certificate from a doctor stating that they are severely mentally impaired and are also receiving one or more of certain social security benefits including attendance allowance , severe disablement allowance , or invalidity benefit . |
| 29 | She began to drift and was just dozing off when she heard the squeak of Nathan 's deck shoes on the ladder . |
| 30 | They were failing to recognize or were positively discounting the rights of those dissenting from their particular views of public order , and subjecting that dissent to the full coercion of the state . |