Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] is [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it is fitting that we should add our tribute to the many that have been made throughout the country . |
| 3 | Now she is hoping that her open luck will change , though it looks as though Smashiton will have too much to do in tonight 's £100 450 metres open at Sunderland . |
| 4 | Now she is wishing that I was back at work . ’ |
| 5 | Now he is proving that he can do it here with 55-yard boundaries , and when he is batting with Paul Parker , another incredibly fast man between the wickets , it is going to be very difficult for sides to control them . ’ |
| 6 | Now he is saying that he killed Caesar for his greater love of Rome than for Caesar ie he killed Caesar for the ‘ general good ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe he is thinking that today he will loose his freedom . |