Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself here and now — at my hotel window , the road below crowded with traffic , the fish market gone until tomorrow , the winter sun lighting the exercise book in which I 'm writing these events of nearly three years past — wanting to put down my pen , lean back and wonder at my arrogance , such stubborn obtuseness . |
| 2 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
| 3 | The white paper that was published some months ago indicates I think , very clearly , the kind of commitments that we have and the way in which we are meeting those commitments . |
| 4 | MANY people will applaud Liverpool City Council for the zeal with which they are pursuing those residents who have deliberately refused to pay their poll tax . |
| 5 | ‘ We need to check what he was doing those days , anyway — I did n't try too hard when we were last there , because I hoped the autopsy might give us something . |