Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [be] [vb pp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 2 | He 's talking about amniocentesis as well , which should be done next week if it 's going to be done at all . ’ |
| 3 | There is also the pressure of time , when he knows there is a long list of cases still waiting to be tried at that particular circuit . |
| 4 | Indeed , this version of English was now beginning to be justified at some provincial universities on grounds of the kind proposed by Reid . |
| 5 | Tensely they waited , expecting to be discovered at any moment . |
| 6 | They lay up all the following day , expecting to be attacked at any moment , but no enemy showed up . |
| 7 | Unlike many jobs , housework can often be done in a very short space of time without actually failing to be done at all . |
| 8 | I 'm going back to the erm controversial emotive subject of atomic power I suppose , as you said earlier , the the atomic bomb and erm I suppose the most worrying thing for er for everybody was when erm the Cuba crisis was on and everybody was just waiting for these mushrooms to appear over London because we all thought we were gon na be bombed at any time but er obviously the other thing that sort of worries people is other things that you said about Chernobyl and Three Mile Island but on the other side , obviously the erm the low cost of atomic power must be the advantage for the future . |
| 9 | Cos I would n't lo I mean I actually do n't think you can do , if you 're gon na do people are gon na eat I th I think you 're gon na be pushed at more than about hundred and fifty to two hundred . |