Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 2 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 3 | Not a lot was happening and I was really tired so I decided to go to bed . |
| 4 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 5 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 6 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 7 | One of the great things about watching a good comedy show or film is that people around you start laughing and you are much more likely to join in . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 10 | But either it was not hunting or he was too big to tackle , for it disappeared over the heather ; and although he waited motionless for some time , it did not return . |
| 11 | It is very important to keep on happy and good terms with the family that are living and it is extremely sad when the death of a parent who loved all the children should be an unwitting source of family rifts . |
| 12 | Excuse me for swearing but I 'm just repeating what she said … |
| 13 | No he 's alright looking but he 's just boring . |
| 14 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 15 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 16 | Erm again , this is why er er jogging at th at this point became so er popular if you remember everyb er a little while , few years ago everybody was rushing out jogging and there are still people who are doing it . |
| 17 | Some were eating and there was always the chance when this happened that they might put something into the Cages for the eagles . |
| 18 | You 're either lying or you 're very naïve . |
| 19 | Councillor and Councillor mentioned testing and they 're dead right , I oppose it , it 's an irrelevance , a complete distraction . |
| 20 | Why do you bother paying and we were just mucking about you know , like I know something |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That unsettled me a bit , but we eventually got going and it was all right . |
| 23 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 24 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 25 | Pauline sold him at weaning and he is now another family 's pride and joy . |
| 26 | Back down the beach , the Big Wheel was turning and there were even queues waiting to get on . |
| 27 | The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks . |
| 28 | crap bands and I 'm going but they 're so untalented , sort it out and he 's going |
| 29 | So we , we th that , that was er another good thing they , they got going but there was very little for , for nurses to do . |
| 30 | He turned to the wall where it should have been hanging but there was only an empty bracket . |