Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | I manage to calm my nerves by remembering how I feel before a World Championship run with twisting somersaults and double axels ahead of me . |
2 | First of all it 's a against the law but after that these youngsters quite often do n't know what they 're doing when they get into a car and they are lethal |
3 | Presumably , this is what moths are doing when they fly into a candle and are burnt to death . |
4 | He asks in one of his papers , ‘ The Place Where We Live ’ : ‘ What are we doing when we listen to a Beethoven symphony or when a child is playing ? ’ |
5 | Well that 's exactly what you 're doing when you sleep on a Sherpa Underblanket made from pure New Zealand Long Tufted lambswool . |
6 | Some recent work , however , particularly in attempting to historicise the insights of Freud , and to demonstrate the specificity of his categories ( that is , showing how they refer to a particular cultural milieu ) has opened up new possibilities . |