Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases , and especially with annuals and some other flowering plants , picking the flowers will actually encourage more to grow , so you may find that picking for pressing can be an advantage at times . |
| 2 | For example , ‘ the weather forecast is n't good , it 's going to rain' could be repeated as ‘ I 've brought my umbrella with me because we may have showers . ’ |
| 3 | The analogizing of knowing to seeing may pervade the concrete experience of coming to know , in the mystic 's vision flooded with light ; or it may be explicit in parable , as in Plato 's of mankind misled by illusory appearance as prisoners in a cave who see only the shadows on the wall . |
| 4 | Against that , Labour in the person of Harold Wilson had a more widely respected leader then it has now , and many experienced Tory canvassers are convinced that thousands of former Tory voters who are now thinking of defecting will gloomily return to the Tory fold within the next few days as they come face to face with the possible reality of a Kinnock government . |
| 5 | What I 'm gon na say may seem strange but they do n't allow for certain contextual influences . |
| 6 | I 'm gon na say can I come back over for it . |
| 7 | You 're gon na fall can you put the top on the salad cream please ? |
| 8 | And you can tell what 's gon na happen ca n't you ? |