Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] 's [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 2 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 3 | And they 'll check that out for you and we 'll see what 's happening but it 's just in case there 's any arthritis or anything like that that 's |
| 4 | But Phillip Chubb is in our group And he wants to be Robin Hood And Ann Boot is sulking because she 's not with her friend And I do n't see why I should be wood . |
| 5 | I carry on walking till it 's really dark and all the cars have got their lights on . |
| 6 | September is one of my favourite months for walking as it 's invariably cooler — and wetter , it 's true ! — yet the days are still long and it 's easier to avoid the crowds . |
| 7 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 8 | ‘ Jason was here when I came , proving that it 's not what a player costs but what he does that counts . ’ |
| 9 | However , his distressed natural fabrics are an eerily beautiful choice for the contemporary aesthete , proving that it 's not always necessary for fashion designers to be timelords too . |
| 10 | Basses by Bernie Goodfellow Proving that it 's extremely difficult to keep a good bassmaker down , here are the latest offerings from the hands of Bernie Goodfellow … |
| 11 | Now who will be responsible for seeing that it 's there ? ’ |
| 12 | It was a lunchtime event which proved most enjoyable , and people left realising that it 's not only the banks that can do something to cover themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ Pretending that everything 's exactly the same as it was when you first came here . |
| 14 | Are you implying that it 's not very long been in this country ? |
| 15 | concerts and things , but you can , you can tell , with just , just by listening that it 's not just any old body tinkling on the piano , it 's wonderful , it makes you sick . |
| 16 | No he 's alright looking but he 's just boring . |
| 17 | When he opens his mouth , a valve closes to prevent him swallowing when he 's underwater , and he could have ejected that medicine if he had wanted to . ’ |
| 18 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 19 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 20 | A confirmed five-string user , John agrees to try the Pedulla , adding that he 's really no fan of Bartolini pickups , having tried them before and found them not to his taste . |
| 21 | It 's worth noting that there 's now little real price differential between the top of the page printer market and the bottom of the imagesetting market . |
| 22 | Okay , so the gradient which shows you how fast they 're going If it 's more or less horizontal , they 're still . |
| 23 | I 'm not going if he 's there . |
| 24 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 25 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 26 | Often sounding like there 's no one driving , Mark 's recipe for recording involves bringing the barest bones of a song into the studio , letting the musicians bend it , stretch it , squash it , cook it and generally rip it to shreds , before setting about trying to sort out the sparks from the farts . |
| 27 | We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed . |
| 28 | That comes up as waiting because it 's not the right side . |
| 29 | The Gloucestershire rider says he does n't want to break any more bones , and wants to stop racing while he 's still giving value for money . |
| 30 | Ah but she ca n't help it can she but it puts you off going when he 's in dun n it ? |