Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] i [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |
| 2 | I notice the difference on those occasions when it is raining and I wear a hat . |
| 3 | ‘ He did n't like rehearsing and I remember a Salome in Munich where the Jokanaan was very uncertain in his part . |
| 4 | Hopefully Rocky will be playing but I 've a feeling it will be Hodge . |
| 5 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |