Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you 're going solo now , ’ said the victim , fumbling for her smokes again . |
| 2 | At the moment , we do not have the resources , knowledge or understanding with which to do so . |
| 3 | every year I 'm looking for it to move forward a little bit . |
| 4 | The basic business of looking after them felt so demanding and emotionally wearing that there seemed little rime left to introduce them to ‘ real living ’ . |
| 5 | And here you are , in your own house , and looking like you 've just come out of solitary . ’ |
| 6 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 7 | You 've probably seen some of these that are brushed , they get a very heavy brushing on them make almost into coats . |
| 8 | On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment . |
| 9 | Wanting to something to do totally differently . |
| 10 | He was terrifying , towering over her seeming twice the size in his fury , but she would not run . |
| 11 | And then the er the older ones when they were if if they were sitting on the walls outside , the erm deck level flats , again they were either disturbing the people there or , the people were out shouting at them to get away and sit on their own walls and things like that . |
| 12 | That was what 'd taken my fancy when the plan struck me : I could just see them standing there , mouths opening and shutting , looking at me bringing home this strange new boyfriend , knowing that nice people are polite to their daughters ' boyfriends when they 're thrust in front of their noses but — how can you be polite , darling — or , well , be anything — to this one ? |
| 13 | The bazaar drew nearer and nearer — and what a strange thing , McAllister thought , to be such a central part of her life , and she and Matey worked together now , in that , as in everything else , and Matey 's liking for her grew daily , for the eyes McAllister turned on him were always so full of love , and he was easy and happy with her , as he had not been since he was a boy before Africa and Angela Deverill 's betrayal . |
| 14 | The trouble with the menopause is that everyone around the woman going through it suffers too . |
| 15 | The crowd were pulling for me to do well . ’ |
| 16 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 17 | Watching the door , Lucy stood waiting for them to emerge again , but their exit appeared to be taking a long time to eventuate . |
| 18 | In essence , what has stood me in good stead all these years in broadcasting is spotting good people and waiting for them to come forward with what interests them ; what obsessions , what passions they have in translating those into programmes . |
| 19 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 20 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
| 21 | He looked inquiringly at her , waiting for her to say more , but when she did not introduced the man he was with as Ollie , another guitarist . |
| 22 | Lost in the contemplation of her beauty and the music of her voice , I just went on looking , waiting for her to speak again . |
| 23 | Without saying anything further , he shifted his enormous shoulders more comfortably against the door-frame as though settled for the rest of the day , and moved his eyes to her mouth almost as though he was waiting for her to speak again , she thought , feeling thoroughly disgruntled . |
| 24 | ‘ If what ? ’ she asked , waiting for him to say please . |
| 25 | As we approached we could hear the real Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club welcoming everyone to the adventure and we could see Zak and the other actors waiting for him to finish so that they could get on with the mystery . |
| 26 | Thinking of the girl who would probably be up and dressed and waiting for him to go downstairs , Harry frowned uneasily . |
| 27 | He thought that the Robemaker was waiting for him to do so ; perhaps somehow to indicate that he would ask for mercy , but he had done nothing . |
| 28 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 29 | She was waiting for him to come home , when Liddy knocked and entered . |
| 30 | At about midnight , while we were still waiting for him to come home , we noticed the wind was getting stronger . |