Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [coord] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was received by old Mrs Ferrar and Nicholas , to whom he spoke frankly of how he had heard of ‘ their watching and praying at night , of their altar richly decked with plate , tapestry and tapers , of their adoration and genuflections on entering therein , which might savour of superstition and popery ’ . |
| 2 | That 's what makes me sick : you laughing and chatting with Stok while our boy was sitting there petrified . ’ |
| 3 | He saw you coming and begged for mercy , not realising that his words were being transmitted and repeated by Michael Banks on stage . |
| 4 | Mill says exactly what I just said in response of him that is if the people are prepared to accept these why what 's to stop them consulting and asking for advice about how they should cast their vote and so Mill later on gives a response to his own suggestion about plural voting in effect without realizing that what he 's done . |
| 5 | The conclusion kept her tossing and turning in despair for hours , the sound of traffic in the High Street a poor substitute for the lulling boom of the sea round Gullholm . |
| 6 | And it was n't self-pity that kept her tossing and turning till dawn … |
| 7 | The man had a rasping cough that exploded from his lungs in noisy barks which often left him groaning and gasping for breath . |
| 8 | I could n't look as I stood helplessly at the top of stairs listening to him bumping and thudding from step to step until he reached the bottom . |
| 9 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 10 | Out of the dust of the Bodleian , Dr Lonsdale has resurrected more than a hundred witty women and set them glistening and pulsing with life and spirits before us ; and through their fresh and often subversive eyes , the Augustan age seems much closer than it did . |
| 11 | Because it involves looking at text and response on the three different linguistic levels , teachers find themselves thinking and talking about language itself quite differently . |