Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned that using someone sexually leaves you feeling oddly empty and bad about yourself . |
| 2 | And plainly Peirce does not deny that we have some common sense grasp of it ; but he holds that taking it seriously transforms the character of inquiry . |
| 3 | Each film contains 16 shots , and developing it automatically reloads the camera . |
| 4 | Flap limit is 91 knots , and pumping them down requires rather more muscle than retraction . |
| 5 | In fact the dream that we all had about Great Britain acknowledging it 's theatre and funding it properly has suffered a lot of setbacks since the ‘ sixties ’ . |
| 6 | When we are rehearsing and recording he never touches a drop of alcohol ; but afterwards there are many toasts and celebrations . |
| 7 | And travelling he sometimes panics on boats if he gets short of air . |
| 8 | ‘ You have to play more than one way to win the Championship and having him back gives us more options . |
| 9 | However , the two of them stayed up late last night , drinking my best booze , and this morning Em 's been slamming doors quite a bit , and giving me dirty looks . |
| 10 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 11 | But once you 're up and running it soon becomes clear that networks let you do a whole host of other things . |
| 12 | And knowing someone automatically makes you feel close to him . |
| 13 | ‘ It was her life , you see , parties and pretty clothes , and putting them on makes her remember how happy she used to be . |
| 14 | So I think that disaster preparedness and , and , and making yourself safer comes only when you have quite a large surplus , and that means in the developed countries of the world , like the Californian was much , much less likely to die from an earthquake even though he lives in a very vulnerable part of the world , than perhaps erm a rural person in Central America . |
| 15 | The toggle switch is two-position , and flicking it on takes the sound straight to a pre-determined setting . |
| 16 | RATHFRILAND 'S Noel Weir brought his golf clubs to Dublin today and hoping he never uses them . |
| 17 | I can scarcely write the four words without going to pieces , and watching it actually makes me lose weight . |
| 18 | However , this is purely a matter of experimentation and discovering what best suits your method of working . |
| 19 | This infection is thought to play an important part in the pathogenesis of the ulcer disease as eradicating it dramatically lowers the ulcer relapse rate . |
| 20 | For him , the sense of a sentence is determined by the sorts of situation we count in favour of the sentence being true , in such a way that the sentence with that sense ( i.e. as we understand it ) can not be false if the sort of situation we count as making it true occurs . |