Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another popular cheat is to quote last year 's rates , only raising them to this year 's the day after the form is posted to us . |
| 2 | Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction . |
| 3 | not using it for some |
| 4 | The message is that drivers who do n't break their journey , are in serious danger of not completing it at all . |
| 5 | He might have been spooning it into his pocket , not eating it at all . |
| 6 | ‘ Michelet has strong emotions , and he smears what he feels on to paper without caring in the least how he does it , and without giving the slightest thought to technique or conventional forms — just shaping it into any form that can be understood by those who want to understand it . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm not thanking you for that Phil . |
| 8 | Erm we feel rather badly about not returning it to this person who made it for us |
| 9 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
| 10 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
| 11 | It was as if he were touching her , physically caressing her with that dark , gold-flecked gaze . |
| 12 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 13 | It was almost as if he was doing me a favour by not sentencing me for more , even though it was only one specimen charge of supplying . |
| 14 | Er , very wary of those , really , and we 're not recommending them at all . |
| 15 | not hunting them at all ? |
| 16 | and when we were having this argument on Wednesday he said I said we what what was your reason then for not paying me for that when I was genuinely sick and he said er oh he said because I gave you such a good bonus last week , I said what was that then , he said erm twenty five pounds , I said no you did n't ! |
| 17 | Giant trees were soon surrounding him on all sides and their branches made an almost solid roof high above his head , blotting out the sky . |
| 18 | Months later he was to admit : ‘ Do n't you realize , Jim , I was just egging you on all the time ? |
| 19 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 20 | I do n't like me voice , I 'm not liking it at all and I think that 's what putting me off on taping it and listening to myself after , I do n't , I like , I like |
| 21 | The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues . |
| 22 | When you do file extract , just er , saving part , it 's not removing it from this . |
| 23 | His argument that he was not displaying it towards another gains strength from the fact that , under section 18 ( which is explicitly concerned with the offence of stirring racial hatred ) the word ‘ display ’ is not similarly qualified . |
| 24 | The third characteristic envisaged for the polytechnics , namely that they should have an ‘ applied philosophy ’ , means that their courses should have a vocational orientation and be designed with specific career outlets in mind , thus distinguishing them from many university courses which are sometimes described as ‘ pure ’ . |
| 25 | This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 26 | Not getting me for any extra hours that 's a certain fact |
| 27 | Or not getting it at all . ’ |
| 28 | We are not getting it at all . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , but we 're not starting it till this evening . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm not saying it like that , what I 'm saying is I would pref , yes , I would like them to be involved in it a as far as my subject reports are concerned I would like our reports that we do , we do involve the kids , I pass them out , we discuss them and I 'll re-draft but I would not , rather not have their written sample on that piece . |