Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tealtaoich stood quite still , regarding the waiting Trees and seeing that they were listening and apparently politely prepared to hear anything he had to say . |
| 2 | I did n't know at what rate I was now travelling and no longer bothered to work it out . |
| 3 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 4 | But the grown-ups just carried on talking and never even bothered to look up . |
| 5 | And I 'm quite sure that what Mr Major will then say if , if er demand and borrowing and so on does take off again , er is that this is because the real economy has improved , but of course it wo n't be true , er and we shall have to pay the price again er at the end of the , of the honeymoon period . |