Example sentences of "[v-ing] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she were her normal self she would be pottering happily around Simone , laughing whenever she got in her way and sticking her fingers in the food . |
| 2 | Creed was showing some of the pieces to the tourist and explaining how they worked . |
| 3 | yes , I know that , but I 'm just explaining how we come to be in Liverpool ! |
| 4 | The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods . |
| 5 | I have managed to breed my Port Hoplo catfish and I thought I would drop you a line explaining how I succeeded so that other readers might have a try . |
| 6 | Describe IBM 's VSAM software , explaining how it operates and how it can be optimized . |
| 7 | The Girl was explaining how she thought perhaps she ought to make some kind of thanks to them for their hospitality . |
| 8 | HE insisted that the Church has never ruled that a priest should not have sex , only that he should not marry , ’ says Monika ( sic ) Kocanek by way of explaining how she ended up in bed with Fr Christopher O'Neill and then found herself pregnant . |
| 9 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 10 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 11 | In later years , when explaining how he got to Cape Town , John always mentioned having appeared in one or two small parts when the ballet from the Cape came to Johannesburg . |
| 12 | for Linlithgowshire and younger brother to the Earl of Hopetoun , made his attack : Crump surrendered instantly , taking up Hope 's opening words by explaining how he had met Mr Newton , or was it Wilson ? — the honourable gentleman 's Factor in Preston , was it , my dear ? |
| 13 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 14 | Tennyson explaining how he came to write the Idylls of the King is another . |
| 15 | On 30 November 1983 the then Secretary of State made a statement to Parliament explaining how he proposed thereafter to exercise his powers under the subsection . |
| 16 | The lyrics are pretty much standard , if mild , slackness , a typical ragga-gruff voice explaining how you 've got ta be a top shag to please a girl . |
| 17 | Prepare your child for each visit by explaining how you want her to behave . |
| 18 | you get one percent on explaining how you do it |
| 19 | What was the point of denying how she felt ? |
| 20 | Understanding how they came about is one of the challenges in this affair . |
| 21 | Much of the evidence discussed in the next few chapters will rely on EEG and other electro-physiological information , and some understanding of the basis of these measures is essential to understanding how we know what we do about sleep . |
| 22 | But , by understanding how he saw leys being constructed and operating , a picture begins to emerge of a system where each piece can be fitted into the whole . |
| 23 | ‘ If it 's not his jokes , he is constantly relating how he fought as a moss trooper on the northern march . ’ |
| 24 | Such research emphasizes the importance of defining the experiences of black and female students as multi-faceted , of documenting how they perceive and respond to racism and sexism within society and education in many different ways . |
| 25 | baby-faced double killer was jailed for life … without revealing why he murdered two pretty teenagers . |
| 26 | Next moment she was blundering towards the voice , blindly , hardly noticing when she stumbled ; she came to the hollow where the wrecked car lay , and saw a pale patch on the ground beside it . |
| 27 | Arnold 's fearful preoccupation with the violence of his time drew on a number of sources , for it was not only the ‘ rough ’ of the East End slums who was ‘ asserting his personal liberty a little , going where he likes , assembling where he likes , bawling as he likes , hustling as he likes ’ . |
| 28 | Therefore Congress , we must call on the C E C to answer the confusion in plain English , so that I , and I 'm sure many other of our members , can understand in the form of a document circulated to the branches so that we can go forward into the future at least understanding where we fit into our own union . |
| 29 | Something uncompromising in Flora prevented her from understanding where she went wrong . |
| 30 | Right , fine well maybe you ought to be announcing where you live James at the end of this so |