Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this state he or she is putting out the mixed messages , " I need you to help me … get away from me " . |
| 2 | For all his working of the flesh and his golden suntan and his deployment of pop philosophies and credos , Letterman is too contrived an individual to be successful with the sort of Frenchwoman — my gaze descends from the mountain to my backyard where they are pegging out a goatskin — whom he desires to play the part of Claudia . |
| 3 | Travis asked from the fire , where he was setting up a pan of water . |
| 4 | ‘ The job took over my life , although I 'm slowing down a bit now , ’ he says . |
| 5 | By 4 January 1927 , the full force of Nizan 's anger , repressed for so many years , could no longer be held in check : The effect of the solitude at Aden is that I am storing up a violence that was unknown to me … |
| 6 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 7 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 9 | Or she will write to say that she is giving up the family house and moving away . |
| 10 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 11 | I then asked her to imagine that she was walking along a familiar street in her own neighbourhood . |
| 12 | The sound indicated that she was coming down the mast . |
| 13 | Mrs Richards pretended to sleep , but Shelley could tell by the tightly closed eyes and the hard lines at the corners of her mouth that she was shutting out the world because it was hurting again . |
| 14 | Once she was holding out a small present done up in coloured wrapping . |
| 15 | Although we are carrying out an extensive programme of regional visits , neither my right hon. and learned Friend nor myself , alas , plan to visit Basildon in the immediate future . |
| 16 | In other words , that we 're spreading out the costs and the charges amongst the people that actually use the services , the road , the school , the particular asset that we erm , would be funding . |
| 17 | Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ? |
| 18 | Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ? |
| 19 | It has become apparent on some of the issues , some of the comments that we made that was if I could call it the you 'll know what we 're talking about and I do n't if we are talking about the there was there was a point somewhere where talked about ing an increase or short of journey time along the ring road and this has been taken as I understand to be that we are setting out an increase of speed er traffic on the sections of road to a junction and that 's totally in force and it was either . |
| 20 | ‘ You have to bear in mind that we are coming off a very low base , ’ said Mr Heather . |
| 21 | The main thing was that we were picking up a lot of hawking know-how , even if we did look ridiculous . |
| 22 | We just did the Radio One 25th Anniversary concert in Birmingham , and we recorded that , so we 're putting out a live medley of hits from it . |
| 23 | I do hope you 're feeling better , and that they 're sorting out the right combination of drugs this time . |
| 24 | First , it may be difficult to recruit a sample of people who know that they are taking on a very long-term commitment . |
| 25 | Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday said that they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap . |
| 26 | A few months ago NME cover stars SEAN HUGHES and CATHAL COUGHLAN announced that they were bringing out an LP together . |
| 27 | Though he could n't hear them , Trent knew that they were setting up a race . |
| 28 | In a statement broadcast on national radio , the soldiers , who appeared to be led by Capt. Valentine Strasser , announced that they were setting up a National Provisional Defence Council . |
| 29 | Conservationists criticized the Spanish authorities for failing to take sufficient measures to rescue oiled seabirds , and suggested that they were covering up the extent of the damage . |
| 30 | She was fanning her cheeks desultorily when she realised with a start that they were pulling off the road and Niall was bringing the car to a halt . |