Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , most marriages would start off with as good a chance of success as failure , I suppose , if it were n't for outside influences , but there are too many women like you around , taking what you want with no thought for anyone else involved , and then hanging on once you 've got it — out of sheer habit or emotional laziness , it sometimes seems to me . ’ |
| 3 | alright , well then building on that I do n't quite understand it , if you 're , you 're saying that those provisions that allow agents to pull for whatever funds are necessary are what , void to what extent to the extent that the funds are or are said to be erm needed to satisfy claims on policies which had you known that which you say you ought to have known , you would not have er authorised the agents to write , type rather long that , but I |
| 4 | his music thing has n't he ? , he likes music he likes to be on his own , ooh that nails sticking in if you trim your nails properly |
| 5 | Bacterial spores can withstand extremes of hot and cold , not to mention the vacuum of space , for extended periods , germinating only when they attain more favourable environments . |
| 6 | But as the directives are binding only if they do not deviate much from right reason and as we should act on them only if they are binding , we always have to go back to fundamentals . |
| 7 | She was walking down and I shout you bloody old troll . |
| 8 | It 's fairy story nonsense , the very idea of their existence in these days when people are dying daily because they do n't have enough money to operate one radiator in the house , to me , is immoral . |
| 9 | On her office desk sits a picture of mother and daughter laughing together as they stroll through the Lake District . |
| 10 | Well it may be that they do n't know how to , or that they set out such patterns of relating together that they have n't got the means of coping with it . |
| 11 | People walking in but we need to need to clearly define the areas and if it 's that the national account department at has this list of corporate clients then maybe it makes sense that the national account manager responsible for deals with those also |
| 12 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 13 | This means one must avoid calling from another room , talking with your face in shadow , walking away before you have finished the sentence or calling something over your shoulder as you go out of the door . |
| 14 | Walking home and you work it out . |
| 15 | I taped I want you to check it for me , I taped me and Sue walking home cos I have to do around the school you see . |
| 16 | And of course with hoods on you ca n't hear the poor soul behind you squeaking indignantly as you work your way up their ankles . |
| 17 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 18 | She 's sulking now cos we have n't really have we ? |
| 19 | So , as you can see , there is no need to be discouraged from growing plants for pressing even if you do only have a window box . |
| 20 | Well you were just talking about children erm my feeling is that we 're all children , there is no division between being a child and an adult and I think that they can accept a whole lot , but there 's a whole lot of adults that ca n't accept the shocks that are happening today and they put them into their subconscious and unfortunately it comes out in so many other ways — it comes over as a neurosis or as a mental disorder at some later date . |
| 21 | It is worth noticing here that we have already begun to formulate the problem in a more practical way : that we are carving out parts of the general problem which can be observed . |
| 22 | I hear the ghosts of the sailors laughing triumphantly because I 've come to join them . |
| 23 | Of course , as Vietnam proved all too clearly , it 's pretty handy to have a war knocking about if you want peace songs to sound like anything other than pathetic , drippy platitudes . |
| 24 | Of course , as Vietnam proved all too clearly , it 's pretty handy to have a war knocking about if you want peace songs to sound like anything other than pathetic , drippy platitudes . |
| 25 | There are kids near the railings playing Piss On The Most Petunias , and I 'm lurking about like I want one of those little boys with chipolatas for my tea . |
| 26 | Yes it was yes , last sort of quarter of an hour they was pressing forward and you know , it always looks like you know , they 're going to nick it but , we held out . |
| 27 | Yeah , I mean i it 's keep on walking round till you get familiar with it . |
| 28 | ‘ Hard living on since you 've been gone , there 'll always be a place for you in my space time . ’ |
| 29 | you often get down the Tornados coming , whizzing down , below you , you know you 're looking down as they come past |
| 30 | Living together before you marry is no guarantee of future happiness . |