Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Is she paying and you not putting it in ? |
| 2 | Are you regretting that you ever brought me back to life , Pygmalion ? |
| 3 | What were you doing while everybody else was sticking lambs ? |
| 4 | are you saying that they actually deliberately were trying |
| 5 | ‘ I can imagine you saying that you really could n't tell her because you 'd entirely forgotten the incident — and if it had occurred it meant nothing to you . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |
| 7 | In that spirit , John Davenport , that lazy , combative and yet most perceptive of critics , wrote to me saying that he almost hoped not to have to share his pleasure in this book with too many other people . |
| 8 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |
| 9 | There was , at last , a look of alarm on his face , and I could see him wondering whether he really would have to pull the small trigger . |
| 10 | Well there 's no point in him working cos he just loses his |
| 11 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |