Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day is drawing on and this apothecary 's shop is the very gateway to Hell . |
| 2 | She 's made me think , think differently about … about gettin' on an' that , betterin' mesel' . |
| 3 | There was a drawing of the oak tree , two brave attempts at Sammy , a painting of five children blackberrying , one of a library with people sitting and walking round and several sketches of boots and flowers and half-eaten sandwiches . |
| 4 | This may leave the reader of the fabliau puzzling over whether this is a matter of a subconscious anarchistic attitude or a conscious perception governing the composition of the fabliaux . |
| 5 | We were cast into impenetrable blackness , with the rain still cascading down and that devilish thing on the loose ! |
| 6 | By section 72(5) a ‘ related offence ’ is defined as any offence committed in the course of infringement or passing off or any offence committed in connection with any infringement or passing off , being an offence involving fraud or dishonesty . |
| 7 | Picking up where that era left off has spelled the restoration of the power of the Catholic Church and the unabashed exaltation of Hungarianism . |
| 8 | The CBI says that order books are picking up and this follows brighter news on retail sales . |
| 9 | " I was trying to play a joke on you , dressing up and that . |
| 10 | ‘ Just looking up where this Muggeridge lives … |
| 11 | Is n't the enquiry desk capable of looking out when that arrears |
| 12 | It keeps flapping about and that . |
| 13 | I stay there for quite a bit , looking round and that , till it gets light . |
| 14 | ‘ I went out to work waiting on and some of the women were such comics I could n't help but laugh at them . |
| 15 | I 've seen lots of pictures where people are obviously doing something that you just do n't know what 's going on and that , that is a pity because er er the idea of a photograph is to illustrate what 's happening . |
| 16 | After a bit , me dad went out to see what was going on and all of a sudden there was such a crash , and erm then there was two more like , you know and er we heard what , what we assumed was somebody 's house tumbling down but it was our stable unfortunately . |
| 17 | but erm , I think I down by his legs , all this and erm , you know , its bang , bang its just like , its over in a split second , you do n't have time to be this , I was there and there nobody really new what was going on and all this sort of stuff , he was probably one of most honest about , well , one of the most honest little bloke more willing to speak about it , and he had this other one it was right you know like , er , well I 'm already taking further than I 'm willing to go on this course , what you need is , well look , you know , all I know is that we was first , saying no more than that , not willing to go . |
| 18 | Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on . |
| 19 | Is there any similarity between electrical signals in the human brain when dreaming is going on and those in a dog 's ? |
| 20 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 21 | He could n't actually tell me what was going on because that would put him in shtuck but he was trying to tip me the wink . |
| 22 | New Bold college could n't prevent its students from going along and some young Seventh Day Adventists were predisposed to be receptive . |
| 23 | It 's the biggest con that Poll Tax thing go er the amount going down that this lot have pulled on us and everybody 's fell for it hook , line and sinker |
| 24 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 25 | Then , course then they used to hav when the man stood in green , I knew a fella named which we was talking about a little while ago and he had a pair of lady 's stockings which he used to put over his shoes to stop the grain going in and some of these people in the and , they used to have erm , like er string soles with like calico boots and they used to tie them on tight . |
| 26 | It 's only because he wants to prevent the bomb going off that this belief of his makes him shoot . |
| 27 | Encountering unsympathetic staff in a physically depressing environment ( ‘ It 's a depressing place , cold , the clocks do n't work ’ ) , many women found the experience alienating and impersonal : ‘ I just sign my name , feel like a convict , lining up and all that . ’ |
| 28 | Because he does n't appear to do a very good job , he does n't turn up when , at times , he does n't ring you to tell why he 's not turning up and that sort of person is not a good idea to go for |
| 29 | criticism about them not turning up and this sort of thing . |
| 30 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |