Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What do you think of me appearing like that in front of the men ? ’ she asked in her slow , earnest , Germanic accent , gazing at Jane with steady blue eyes . |
| 3 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 4 | My usual state of mind is ‘ what am I dying of this week . ’ |
| 5 | Why am I applying for this particular job ? |
| 6 | Am I looking at this file at all anxiously ? |
| 7 | No way am I living in another flat , no chance . |
| 8 | Oh well I going across those country roads |
| 9 | Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ? |
| 10 | ‘ No , Mother , in no way am I going to this Mrs Boston 's . ’ |
| 11 | Cos I had an awful experience about ooh , four years ago , I had this old Moggy Morris Minor coming along very slowly north of Hull it was and this chap and his about finished work you know , so I going past this cri , there 's a cricket match going on and he was looking like , I could see and his girlfriend ! |
| 12 | Now , am I waiting for these today or ? |
| 13 | I went to see him at Covent Garden and came away thinking ‘ What am I doing with this miserable life ? ’ |
| 14 | Honestly , though , who out there has n't at several junctions been reduced by sleeplessness , exhaustion and sheer frustration into staring over the heads of your babies at the man who fathered them , and thinking what in hell 's name am I doing with this person ? |
| 15 | I was thinking , what am I doing in this medical school , having a shit time ? ’ , and I was with my first and last girlfriend . |
| 16 | ‘ What was I saying before that ? ’ she said . |
| 17 | I did it so quickly , all the rest , I thought with The Times crossword , I 'm , I whooping through this like mad . |
| 18 | Why am I thinking like this ? |
| 19 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 20 | I could imagine them looking at each other . |
| 21 | I er I nearly fell through the floor a little while ago I was British Gas people and one of them living with this lady and I want to give her half of my lump sum , how can I do to avoid er to effect her income tax or inheritance tax thinking in terms of the inheritance tax limit of a hundred and fifty thousand I said , Well would you mind telling me about how much it will be ? |
| 22 | So can you tell me looking at those seven could you tell me which you would say immediately comes to mind with Mother Theresa ? |
| 23 | She was suggesting that ‘ relevant ’ skills are best learned in the context in which they are relevant , and that teachers can never be certain that their pupils are acquiring the ability to cope in any particular context unless they see them operating in that context . |
| 24 | If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs ( |
| 25 | To reduce this ambiguity , it is necessary to eliminate the incorrect letter candidates in each position , or at least rank them according to some measure of their plausibility . |
| 26 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 27 | If she has indeed acquired sufficient skill to send me howling into some black hole , now 's the moment she 'll try it . |
| 28 | Here we see them training for that role . |
| 29 | ‘ Where are ye goin' with that ? ’ he demanded sternly . |
| 30 | The keen thespian likens the challenge of reactivating the Pedernales oilfield to mounting a theatrical production — it should impress the audience enough to leave them yearning for more . |