Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was shown into an empty office where I sat waiting for a minimum of ten minutes . |
| 2 | Or I went swimming in the sea . |
| 3 | Having eventually gained planning permission , we have now launched in earnest our appeal for funds to create a suitable memorial to her — a campsite at Harrison 's Rocks near her home in , E. Sussex , where she taught climbing with her husband Terry . |
| 4 | Or who sees meaning in this change ? |
| 5 | You remember in France , the er they made you where we kept walking round the table and er she sa , anyway said er fish soup ? |
| 6 | Springfield walked Curtis and Pam to the hospital carpark , where they stood chatting by Curtis 's car . |
| 7 | This happens , for instance , when the volkstümlich tunes so popular in early nineteenth-century bourgeois domestic song ( where they signify according to romantic conceptions of nation and community ) are used by working-class singers for disaster ballads ; when sentimental Tin Pan Alley ballad melody is ‘ gospelized ’ by Ray Charles or Otis Redding ; or when the heavy four-four of the quick march ( goose step ? ) is appropriated by the early punk bands as a mode of critique . |
| 8 | IT PROBABLY never existed , the England where everybody went dancing to a big band on a Friday night and tripped the light fantastic and moved romantically , cheek to cheek , with their best girl or their best boy , and where there was always a full moon outside . |
| 9 | And when Mrs Knight said she had some costume jewellery in the house he followed her straight into her bedroom where he started going through her drawers . |
| 10 | Before Rincewind could stop him the dragonrider had leapt from the creature 's back to land on the platform , where he stood grinning at the wizard 's discomfiture . |
| 11 | ‘ Thank you , ’ he gritted , then strode towards the water 's edge where he stood staring across the river . |
| 12 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 13 | I said that I feared going down the road of different regional governments having different tax rates . |
| 14 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 15 | It was just that I dislike going off half-cocked , talking too much about a project before I can see where it 's leading . ’ |
| 16 | Well there 's that green and grey thing that I keep passing onto |
| 17 | Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me . |
| 18 | ‘ Now Marguerite will think that I came running to you to beg to go home . |
| 19 | It was a gradual thing , assisted by the fact that I went training on Sunday mornings . |
| 20 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 21 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 22 | I stopped going to school when I was thirteen getting on fourteen , and it was then that I started getting into trouble , running away from home and thieving . |
| 23 | It was after Mother left that I started thinking like that . " |
| 24 | It was about then [ three years ago ] that I started going with some of my mates like Kevin(10) and Eddie(6) … and Eddie and me we got into a lot of fights and that … and the fucking coppers — they always grab either him or me when there 's any bother or that . |
| 25 | It 's generally agreed that I need looking after . |
| 26 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 27 | I told my GP that I intended going to Bristol as soon as I was well enough . |
| 28 | And when I had put these into a plastic bag that I found lying beside them under the dressing-table , I put my hand on her shoulder , about to shake her . |
| 29 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 30 | As I sat there , I realized that I disliked sitting beside this girl very much indeed . |