Example sentences of "[v-ing] [subord] [pron] [be] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shot him between the eyes and then I was off , down the smallest streets , and I did n't stop pedalling until I was back in this Villa Baderini , which , as a matter of fact , used to be my father 's . |
| 2 | When Sophie did these vaccinations in the pet shop Mr Miller held each patient so firmly and expertly that the recipient hardly noticed was was happening until it was over , but in the surgery it was sometimes traumatic . |
| 3 | That section states that a person convicted of taking without consent is liable to pay compensation for any — and I emphasise that word — damage to the property ’ occurring while it was out of the owner 's possession ’ and that such damage is to be treated as ’ having resulted from the offence , however and by whomsoever' the damage was caused . ’ |
| 4 | This is a very important position you 're after , I shall have to be very thorough in checking whether you 're up to it . |
| 5 | At the end of the road the huge bulk of the church with its soaring walls of smoke-blackened brick looked as much out of keeping as it was out of scale with this small domestic self-sufficiency . |
| 6 | ‘ In a large software development team , you can spend a large part of your time on company politics and another large part on documenting when you 're up to it . |
| 7 | At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’ |
| 8 | The inevitable conclusion which will be jumped to is that he is going because there is about to be some momentous U-turn over Maastricht now that Britain 's presidency of the EC is over . |
| 9 | Ah but she ca n't help it can she but it puts you off going when he 's in dun n it ? |
| 10 | But in any case I 'm not complaining if it 's back to the days of sitting downstairs with a brandy and soda while midwives rush about boiling water and collecting towels . |
| 11 | Watching him , teasing him , tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs , Nails idled the afternoon away , pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait : the busybody care people poking their noses in , the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear , no more riding at Biddy 's , no nothing at all , not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby . |
| 12 | You sit there , then you get up and you walk to one end of your cell , which is n't very far , stand there for a little while , then you walk back , look out the window , and all the thoughts go through your mind — I could be out there , your children , friends , what you 'd be doing if you was out there . |
| 13 | Rain called out , asking if anyone was about . |
| 14 | So in other words , we 're saying if they 're off sick , erm , they decide to go out and , you know , do something else to earn some money , then they would n't be able to claim under their policy . |
| 15 | I do a lot of sketching when I 'm out , of real people in the street . |
| 16 | I do a lot of sketching when I 'm out , of real people in the street . |
| 17 | Even at its simplest your intervention — supports the children in their role-play introduces the idea that you , the teacher , can play a role yourself creates the possibility of formalising their language creates the possibility of introducing some simple work in other curriculum areas ( e.g. counting ) encourages them to think beyond the immediate , maybe introducing simple notions of cause and effect narrative gives you the opportunity to introduce simple signals indicating when you are in and out of role , thereby accustoming them to this strategy for when you use it later in a whole group drama . |
| 18 | Do n't have to start taping cos it 's on now . |
| 19 | I 'm just trying to make you aware of what you 're dealing when you 're out there with the people 's |
| 20 | Mm it 's probably shaking cos it 's up there my leg does that sometimes . |
| 21 | The first name on the ‘ 92 list is that of a lady who insisted on coming out in her dressing-gown to rill the boot of the car with bags of glossy paperbacks one freezing February night , and then stood on her doorstep waving till I was out of sight . |
| 22 | ‘ He 'll entertain a whole load of people watching while we 're out on location but he can turn it on and off like a light — the cameras roll and he 's totally into Grant Mitchell . |
| 23 | No one wants to know how my character study of Mark Antony 's going , whether I 've vacuumed under my bed , what videos I 've been watching while they were out , how many lengths I 've swum without a break , whether I 'm telling the truth or lies . |
| 24 | She goes er she goes ssshhhh no I 'd better not say that since , seeing as you 're in . |
| 25 | ‘ I know I do n't , but I might as well make myself useful , seeing as I 'm back , ’ she snapped . |
| 26 | Sophie , Pascoe thought — phoning when I was out at the cove trying to tempt that bastard out of hiding . |