Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Never mind , ’ called McAllister , ‘ needs must … ’ and wobbled down Vetch Street , praying that she arrived at her destination in one piece , the balance of the wretched thing being all wrong , especially with the overloaded basket at the front . |
| 2 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 3 | And there is no point denying that I suffer from Denial , because this means only that I am guilty of Deep Denial . |
| 4 | I urge you to take your master into your confidence , explaining that you glanced at my book by chance while cleaning his study , and that you have been greatly disturbed by it . |
| 5 | Ronald Duncan offered a perhaps apocryphal account of how lunch had been cancelled when Eliot sent a telegram explaining that he had to " bury a woman " . |
| 6 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 7 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 8 | So , if he was going , if he , he 's walking and he breaks into , a breaks into a trot , |
| 9 | She had the door open at the moment with these bloody dogs yapping and she looked at me and said I ca n't hear them ! |
| 10 | As the hon. Member for Livingston can promise his hon. Friends nothing about money , he could not prevent that from happening if he returned to the old system . |
| 11 | Alain came in without even knocking and she turned on him with furious hurt . |
| 12 | We were most anxious to keep the full informed of what 's happening and we seem to be on top of the job as it were . |
| 13 | The problem there I would suggest is the timescale between the things happening and it getting to the regulator and being digested . |
| 14 | I would suggest is the timescale between these things happening and it getting to the regulator and being digested . |
| 15 | But at that time Langer and Graham were bogeying and they had to birdie the last in the finish to force a playoff . |
| 16 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 17 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 18 | I said what really bugs me is when I 'm driving and you come from behind somebody and then somebody overtakes you and . |
| 19 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 20 | He was still praying when he got in the water . |
| 21 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 22 | And the things is , they always laugh , they 're always laughing when they get on the train |
| 23 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 24 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 25 | She could hear her three- year-old son Rufus laughing as he played on the swings nearby . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 27 | Jamila told me that one day Anwar came into the shop and discovered Changez snoring as he sat on his stool , while in front of his closed eyes an SL was shoving a jar of herrings down his trousers . |
| 28 | In the case of the letter and the drawer , the signs fail in their indexical function because , appearing as they do in an isolated expression , they simply direct us into a void . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |
| 30 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |