Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ female ’ could be a female impersonator , or someone in disguise , or an actor on the way to a theatre ; the ‘ angry ’ or ‘ excited ’ person could be deaf , or someone calling out to a friend some distance away . |
| 2 | S er got one lone piece and it 's got a piece of wedge and it 's got another piece sticking up and something sticking out of that piece of branch or something sticking out of that . |
| 3 | I thought maybe I 've got a puncture and I ca n't feel it or something sticking out of it or something but could n't see anything . |
| 4 | If you 've got the right name , if you 've a a number of or something coming in to for a part and of of them you 've seen on television and done a lot equally or as good or better , but you 're gon na be go for that one probably . |
| 5 | He could have been anyone or anything stepping out after a night 's wining and dining . |
| 6 | It was fortuitous that my slackening off in actual programme production at CBC coincided with an increasing social activity , mainly with the Semmens family , whose house I had almost begun to regard as home . |
| 7 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 8 | Their silence on the issue stems from ignorance of the inner man and his family , and a fear that anyone speaking out of turn would be showing disloyalty to their captain . |
| 9 | ‘ In a strict Party sense this was all bourgeois individualism and bohemianism , to me it was infinitely more attractive than anything going on in the Communist Party , particularly the student Communist Party , which was largely in-fighting and sectarian politics . |
| 10 | It will be much , much nicer than us coming over to you . |
| 11 | Rachel stayed in her bedroom dressing , while she heard people coming and going from the villa incessantly , her father cheerful and everyone rushing around like mad trying to get ready . |
| 12 | I 've got to think — if anything happened to me mother , say she were to pass away tonight — I 've no job and nothing coming in at all , only perhaps interest from savings which would n't keep me … |
| 13 | Like Ricky and me clinging on to the past , thought Daisy . |
| 14 | And me turning about like a drowning fish in a mesh of shadows drawing round . |
| 15 | ‘ I said that this was not Shelley and I ganging up in competition against them : it was just two businesswomen trying to make more business . |
| 16 | ‘ In that case , why are Dr Darnell and I walking around in one piece ? |
| 17 | Nowadays there is a sad , derelict air ; a sweetie shop , a pub and a cafe at street level and nobody looking out of upstairs windows . |
| 18 | Caersws station , Llanidloes road level crossing and one crossing up near Criccieth remain semaphore operated ; Machynlleth new station plus staff facilities very nice — old station disintegrating ; Aberystwyth station yard tidied up after several interesting fires but station is on the whole hardly inspiring and platform staff have been working under considerable uncertainty about their futures . |
| 19 | S er got one lone piece and it 's got a piece of wedge and it 's got another piece sticking up and something sticking out of that piece of branch or something sticking out of that . |
| 20 | The fox is him and the forest is like his life and everything going on around him . |
| 21 | She remembered hesitating , choosing , picking the biggest and bluest cornflowers , and him looking up from his planting and saying quietly , ‘ If you pick the ones as are n't quite open yet , they 've a chance of lasting longer , maybe . ’ |
| 22 | And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head . |
| 23 | . With this little foreman threatening fists and everybody running out of the way of the brickwork . |
| 24 | She housekeeping for aunt Bessie and the lodger in South Stainmore , and he farming over at North Stainmore . |
| 25 | And he walking round with these shorts on from last night , and his like , dirty T shirt and this big plaster with nancy boy written on it trying to get home . |
| 26 | The release from the obligations under the lease is purchased by an immediate surrender of the term and his handing over of one half of his goods . |
| 27 | Even if the consumer can cover the risk by insurance , the position is much more complicated for him , and his insurers are going to be less likely to waive their rights of subrogation , without which his assumption of liability and his taking on of the insurance for the risk will not work . |
| 28 | You get all the er , selling different , especially , I mean if your going round with people for months . |
| 29 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 30 | Even in a school where plenty of interdisciplinary discussion took place , this was often a revelation ; " new methods " were no longer something one heard of elsewhere , but something going on in familiar surroundings . |