Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , the only Gentile writer in the New Testament tells us that on one occasion the disciples found Jesus praying and when he had finished they asked him , ‘ ’ Lord , teach us to pray . ’ |
| 2 | And both these events are in keeping with the image we 're seeking and as I said self financing . |
| 3 | The lamp-smudges seemed to swim towards me , dipping and swaying off-centre as I approached them My legs were trembling and when I put my hand against my face it was burning , and yet clammy . |
| 4 | Women and men stand in a different relationship to language and women writers should remember this fact both while they are writing and when they receive rejection slips from publishers . |
| 5 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 6 | As a publish writer yourself I told her I 've been published articles you will understand the need for market targeting and as you mention at twenty thousand words is not full-length , though this could be if was aimed at children . |
| 7 | I like experimenting and if I led a less erratic lifestyle I would do more of it . |
| 8 | So I said , ‘ Maria , I am experimenting and when I say ‘ experiment ’ I mean I want to see how it presents itself . |
| 9 | Also , while he is paying and after he has paid , do n't add to your worries by giving him more credit . |
| 10 | Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’ |
| 11 | We had to change where we were going and when we tried to climb it , it was much harder than I 'd anticipated . |
| 12 | For any long distance sailing you should inform someone where you are going and when you expect to return . |
| 13 | enough revs on the engine , he 'd be going and when I lift , raised the clutch , whereas if I had brought the clutch up part way |
| 14 | News of the Sheikhs , where they were going and where they had been . |
| 15 | Thomas said that he was going and if she wished to remain behind , then that was up to her . |
| 16 | You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily . |
| 17 | This pattern persisted for nearly six months before both parents began to realise that James ' behaviour during the day was not improving and that he stopped playing as soon as he saw his father . |
| 18 | Operators who have their tachograph charts analysed by an outside agency need to be careful about exactly what it is they are buying and whether it meets their requirements in protecting them from breaches of the law by their employees and agents . |
| 19 | she feels that the whole thing needs rationalizing and that she 's just come , co come to the pi the point where she can rationalize everything for once in her life . |
| 20 | And it was er , it was quite amazing when we were going on the motorway we saw these cars with erm er er there was like Pakistani erm and Turkish flags flying and when we got , er when we was going at the night time to Blackpool it was crammed ! |
| 21 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 22 | Other highlights of the survey suggest that the construction industry is stagnating and that there has been a steep fall in new orders , declining sales and lower selling prices . |
| 23 | The burden of the message was that good men were dying in Belfast for lesser sins than MacQuillan was committing and unless he changed the Post 's tune he would be shot . |
| 24 | Or should I perhaps sit down in Salzburg with the empty hope of some better fortune , let Wolfgang grow up , and allow myself and my children to be made fools of until I reach the age which prevents me from travelling and until he attains the age and physical appearance which no longer attract admiration for his merits ? |
| 25 | Tomorrow she really must settle down to serious work on her novel ; time was slipping past , her deadline was approaching and if she did n't get on with it she 'd have Joe making agitated phone calls and coming down to visit . |
| 26 | The Webbs objected that the scheme did not distinguish sufficiently between deserving and undeserving and that it included no measures for the prevention of unemployment . |
| 27 | I started running and when I reached this end of the scaffolding I saw a woman bending over something on the ground at the other end . |
| 28 | Then she saw that Peter had been crying and that he had taken the trouble to wear a clean , white shirt . |
| 29 | She was more rueful than ever , so that Charles stopped dancing and if he did n't quite haul her off the dance floor , he was rather brusque . |
| 30 | But we were losing and as someone had to get him off his backside I thought it might as well be me . ’ |