Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast . |
| 2 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 3 | ‘ Important to whom — to Master Peachey ? ’ demanded Anne , thereby suggesting that she held the opinions of their tutor in contempt . |
| 4 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 5 | The television was switched on , Omi started a new piece of crochet-work , Herr Nordern abandoned his statistics , Frau Nordern her reports , and Paul , boldly and half-truthfully announcing that he had finished his homework , joined Erika on the sofa to watch a good thriller on West German television . |
| 6 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 7 | Polly James , as the matchmaker Frosine , is energetic and endlessly scheming as she attempts to marry off the daughter and her lover Valère , who is masquerading as the Miser 's steward , and the son and Mariane , who is also the object of the father 's desire . |
| 8 | I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? " |
| 9 | Not out of Steve , anyway , who was saying nothing much , only affirming that he had bashed Charley to save his mother ; he had ‘ guessed ’ where she was . |
| 10 | So she kept her doubts to herself , merely remarking that everyone knew what Frenchmen were like and turning the whole thing into a rather laboured joke in which Iris eventually joined . |
| 11 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 12 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 13 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 14 | I feel , rather than see , Moira suddenly remembering that she has an awful lot of things to do somewhere else . |
| 15 | I 'm only going cos I got to . |
| 16 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 17 | She looked at him anxiously , obviously wondering if she 'd gone a little too far . |
| 18 | ‘ Are you regretting making love to me , ’ he grated , ‘ or are you only regretting that you made love to me instead of saving yourself for André ? ’ |
| 19 | When she got downstairs they were both waiting for her , so obviously waiting that she stopped dead and looked alarmed . |
| 20 | However , whilst both the HPV16 sequence and the HSV octamer could readily compete for binding of this protein , the HPV6 sequence could not do so confirming that it does not bind the cervical protein with high affinity ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 21 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 22 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 23 | His grin was so disarming that she blinked slightly . |
| 24 | I slept most of the way home only waking when we got back to Debenham . |
| 25 | Are you really constantly reassessing where you 've been ? |
| 26 | Until she was sixteen they had been constantly moving and there had never been anyone left behind to pass on her address . |
| 27 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 28 | We also need Government investment to back up the youth services , teachers and parents so that the next generation of youngsters does not include a minority whose self-discipline , self-esteem and respect for their own future are so lacking that they get kicks from racing stolen cars or lobbing bottles at the police . |
| 29 | Ben gave the right answer literally speaking because it said it on the sheet of paper . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm only staying if you guarantee that you 're going to pay me . ’ |