Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It does upset me seeing all the stories about her because it 's not a true picture of the real woman . |
2 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
3 | Someone doing all the things she is alleged to have done . |
4 | I ca n't imagine them pushing all the way back against the river . ’ |
5 | The power of DNA lies in its containing both the instructions for making all the proteins in the cell , and the programme which controls their synthesis . |
6 | Gillerthwaite - - ‘ was under the influence of a warm and sportive sunshine , which rendering lazy , while it illuminated the lowing herds of cattle , presented , to the mind 's eye , after their viewing such a scene the results of a Cuyp , a Bergham , or a Potter , or of many an English painter of animals . ’ |
7 | Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean . |
8 | He had never thought to find himself discussing such a thing with a single young woman , but he had heard of American girls ' frankness , and he supposed that this was a sample of it . |
9 | Enough came out of that conversation to keep me brooding half the night . |
10 | ‘ Now is n't that the strange thing and me going all the way to Belfast market . ’ |
11 | are you walking all the way down Kilburn high street ? |
12 | Yeah , but then it saves you getting all the bits and |
13 | Unfortunately the chances of you getting such a shot are highly unlikely . |
14 | Ruth did not lie to Rachaela , neither was she speaking all the truth . |
15 | Sophie was supposed to be doing the chorus so I grabbed Mary , and said come with me on the half way through , called Sophie why are you doing all the talking Dot and not Mary ! |
16 | What were you doing all the time then ? |
17 | Er this is lovely you doing all the |
18 | they watch you writing up , they watch you doing all the other discussions and stuff and they just sort of go with you . |
19 | ‘ If I was n't a happily married lady , I 'd envy you having such a gorgeous partner . ’ |
20 | And after you coming all the way from England . |
21 | Trouble is , if someone gave you icing all the time and no cake , that just sucks . |
22 | But hell , why was she taking all the blame and why was she letting him punish her when he could easily have done some of the running himself ? |
23 | Write properly Stacey come on , say it out to yourself , what are you making such a row ? |
24 | I think it 's great and I have every sympathy for you copping all the flak from the readers who do n't like it . |
25 | ‘ You feeling all the bleeding ticket ? |
26 | As you watch one tackling such a problem in a tank , you can detect the clicks of its discharges increasing as it identifies the outlines of the selected parking place behind it and slowly manoeuvres its great length into it without once touching the sides . |
27 | It 's not just pretty reed-beds , windmills and tourists ; there 's something happening all the year round . ’ |
28 | It 's not like cricket ; there 's something happening all the time . |
29 | It is just that there are so many of them concerned with skin colour , each one having such a small effect , that they seem to blend . |
30 | She 'll be the one doing all the hard work at home and readapting her life . ’ |