Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on your belt , when you 're walking and you had a a lamp hook , which was got a very sharp spike on it you see , and when you was working er shovelling , you 'd stick it in a prop you see ? |
| 2 | Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time . |
| 3 | They left her alone with a great heavy belt strapped round her belly pressing her and making green and yellow lights wink on the huge machine by the bed , and she could n't move and her back was aching and they put a tube into her wrist and she could n't move and she began to panic . |
| 4 | And he says nineteen sixty two when I started reffing and he said the oth they 're not I 'm not giving them this one but these two are for the other mascot scene . |
| 5 | ten pillows , seven needed replacing and we needed a new milk saucepan , a new frying pan , a new ashtray |
| 6 | The kite just kept snapping and flapping and flapping and snapping and it hauled the girl off the earth and into the air , winch and all . |
| 7 | " Mary was n't looking and I found the experience very pleasant . |
| 8 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |
| 9 | No you 're alright , cos sometimes you make , you , you know , you 're writing and you need a flow of ten minutes cos then it interrupts and says do you want to save this ? |
| 10 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 11 | Basically , water passes through a coarse strainer which needs a weekly rinse ; through foam that needs a weekly rinse and changing every four months ; through carbon that has only a two week life ; through two ceramic sponges that need rotating and one discarding every six months ; through the reusable Hex-Nodes and through a final polishing screen . |
| 12 | The evening breeze also brought the sounds of singing and he recognised the lusty bellowing of Ranulf . |
| 13 | Project Development Manager , Richard Summley , says the Council has been very slow in reacting and he denies a claim that disabled patients will also be hit by the fees . |
| 14 | Her tears were easing and she gave a long gurgling sniff , reaching , it seemed , deep into her empty body . |
| 15 | I notice the difference on those occasions when it is raining and I wear a hat . |
| 16 | The number of places which needed guarding and which required the presence of a person of authority meant that , in some cases , men of military talent and experience , but not necessarily of high birth , were given positions of considerable responsibility . |
| 17 | I would n't insult their intelligence by lying and we had a healthy respect for each other . |
| 18 | To invite people in , we 're not , but four of us is going and they buggered the lot . |
| 19 | Then there was plenty of work for them but then when the erm , the one man buses really got going and they introduced the night safe on the buses , the ticket office was cut drastically , they did n't need to have all this information . |
| 20 | But then me and Emma got going and we got a bit drunk and we just said anything and it was really embarrassing . |
| 21 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
| 22 | Well we could set , like you say and no you know , and get it going and you make a salary |
| 23 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 24 | Instead , the narrative is shaped by internal rhythms , by a dynamic of mood and tone and by an unseen control of pace in which tension is slackened , sometimes by a particularly close attention to detail , sometimes by the interpolation of dialogue into the account of the movements and actions of certain individuals , sometimes by one of those exuberant lists of objects which Masefield clearly enjoyed compiling and which bring a peculiarly droll , unexpected quirkiness to relieve the enumeration of dangers from wind and water . |
| 25 | She tried to grin back at him , but suddenly , unaccountably , her teeth were chattering and she gave an enormous , involuntary shudder . |
| 26 | In many parts of the world there are big restrictions on the way we trade , but the industry here has not been preventing from growing and we have a good environment in which to do business . |
| 27 | ‘ He did n't like rehearsing and I remember a Salome in Munich where the Jokanaan was very uncertain in his part . |
| 28 | We followed the wall 160 ft , at which point it doubled its width and was continuing and we had no time to go further . |
| 29 | A host of chances went begging and they had a cracking goal from John Hartless ruled out for offside . |
| 30 | They went begging and it needed an excellent save from goalkeeper Roberts to deny Saunders again in the 76th minute . |