Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most pumps have a filter to clean the incoming air , and this needs cleaning or replacing when it gets dirty . |
| 2 | Later comes a point of being unable to accept the loss , very often searching for the person who has gone and thinking that he or she is still there . |
| 3 | I 've always enjoyed talking and arguing since I was a kid . |
| 4 | Inside the grand , evil smelling hall , a cassocked figure could be seen panting and swaying as it heaved a paper sack of chicken pellets from off the hall table onto the floor . |
| 5 | Some witnesses heard an engine begin coughing and spluttering and some heard an engine increase from low power to a higher power setting before they and other witnesses heard an impact a few seconds later . |
| 6 | I remember their leader turning to go and wondering whether that was his signal for an all-out attack . |
| 7 | On she walked , quarter of a mile , half a mile , watching the sun begin to set and knowing that when it touched the horizon she might see the horse coming and Ferdinando waving and maybe , if he was not slumped asleep in the saddle in front of his father , maybe another small hand too . |
| 8 | Fourthly that each child on that action plan would have outlined where they would hope to go and following that have found out what the requirements are , the possible pathway through and if they are n't sure , I was gon , what I was gon na ask was , if I could have a careers teacher in to talk to form about possible pathway through , i in the general terms so they 've got these four outcomes there . |
| 9 | That was when Tweed began running and running and running . |
| 10 | Erm , there 's a sort of shop in the mall that sort of sells , oh it , it does key cutting and heeling and stuff , we got one from there in the end . |
| 11 | It 's just that you get asked and hoping that the roof can |
| 12 | It is only now , after some 18 months , that people are beginning to realise that owning and using a desktop publishing system does n't instantly make one a great designer . |
| 13 | Well I do n't think actually , I mean I can remember and I do n't quite understand what 's going on here , keeps swapping and changing and I do n't understand it . |
| 14 | Suddenly our long hours spent talking and laughing and crying together seemed trivial by comparison . |
| 15 | It accompanied this request with a paper entitled ‘ Future Management of AFE and distribution of the 1982/83 AFE pool ’ , outlining the criteria which the short-term machinery would have to meet and stressing that the paper had been prepared ‘ purely as a basis for further discussion between the Department and the local authorities ’ . |
| 16 | Got so far on , he stood and he started crying and yelling and , do n't want to go ! |
| 17 | I started crying and saying that he was only a minor , that he was n't old enough to be taken away , and had n't done anything . |
| 18 | ‘ He started yelling and screaming and waving his arms , trying to distract it , ’ Cherry said . |
| 19 | and not have to keep stopping and starting and |
| 20 | fancy the paella he said no problem I make paella so , I mean all of half an hour went by , but we went in and we had paella and then all these people started dancing , they moved the chairs back and they started clapping and singing and dancing and I said is this |
| 21 | All the time I was convulsed by sickness in the dark lavatory someone kept knocking and hammering and ultimately even kicking on the front door of this flat . |
| 22 | You got ta remember you keep looking and looking and all the way across the road . |
| 23 | I mean I , my sister used to have one and she said you could take it on the motorway and it 'll just keep up a , a very good speed still with a noisy engines and then it just kept going and going and going . |
| 24 | I kept staring and shivering and clutching the flowers . |
| 25 | The rain kept starting and stopping and it looked as if most of our march was going to be in the wet . |
| 26 | These vans keep coming and going and the man on the cleaning machine is having another go at cleaning the floor . |
| 27 | I know bearings wanted doing erm tt what he said was they wanted packing and greasing and summat , you know |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't think we had any chance of catching him but I just kept shoving and shouting and he got there in the end , ’ said Antoinette . |
| 29 | ‘ I just kept screaming and screaming until somebody came in to help . ’ |
| 30 | I mean they just keep hammering and hammering and more and more are going out of business . |