Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again that , that is , is very clear and it 's representing initiation rituals . |
| 2 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
| 3 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 4 | And when people send her christmas cards everyone 's gon na spell it wrong and she 's gon na be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 5 | I knew it had gone horribly wrong and it was going to hurt . |
| 6 | By means of the different colours , it should be possible to decide which blade is running high and which is running low ( Fig. 4.2 ) . |
| 7 | I mean , there 's kids round my way who are 11 or 12 years old and they 're dropping Es and smoking draw . |
| 8 | If you 're eighteen to twenty four years old and you 're bringing up a child on your own . |
| 9 | ‘ You are nine years old and you are going to be sent away to a good school , and you must take advantage of all they teach you . |
| 10 | However he 's now five months old and I 'm looking forward to getting back out there . |
| 11 | Then I 'm going to the British Embassy and get a copy of the Daily Telegraph and I do n't care if it 's weeks old and I 'm going to read something I never normally look at like the nature notes if they have them . |
| 12 | Some poor little kid six years old and he was wearing his shell suit |
| 13 | She 's ten years old and she 's sucking up her clothes . |
| 14 | Well they 're three weeks old and she 's selling them for two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 15 | She was very old and she was lying on her back , her feet towards me . |
| 16 | They 've broken free and they 're turning to see what kind of creatures called them out of their enchanted sleep . |
| 17 | all bit and everything 's come out so of course the horse is running around free and he 's trying to catch it |
| 18 | ‘ Different styles made it thoroughly entertaining and nobody was complaining apart from me ! |
| 19 | Laura gave a low moan as she struggled to sit up , one half of her still almost unconscious mind noticing that Ross must have recently had a shower , since his black hair was still damp and he was wearing nothing but a short white towel about his waist . |
| 20 | ‘ He suspects me of killing Angy and he 's trying to protect you . |
| 21 | They 're still giving me hassles that I 'm not British and they 're going to deport me . |
| 22 | And I do n't mean I 'm bending them , but there were some , as I 've said many times , a lot of silly people refereeing in speedway , and thank goodness now , ninety nine per cent of them are being sensible and we 're seeing some good refereeing . |
| 23 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |
| 24 | Only thing I was screwing about was , she got my trainers all wet and I was going you bitch , they 're the only pair I got , the decent pair ! |
| 25 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 26 | We are using the first two forms ( No 1581 and No 1650 ) despite this , but the third form ( No 1655 ) is completely unusable and we are having to reorder . |
| 27 | Avoid behaviour indicating sub-text like : ‘ You 're boring me rigid and I 'm looking for someone more interesting to talk to . ’ |
| 28 | erm developed and it 's gon na be released in the next few months |
| 29 | It might be quite warm and we 're going to go to sleep in the car . |
| 30 | A , a curtain is used to screen you off , and if it 's a very cold day we 've got infra-red heat we 've got a lamp above the he , the couch and we actually put on the infra-red heat so we warm you up first before you start , before we start so your body is feeling nice and warm and you 're feeling relaxed , we have nice music playing and it does help right , with the tension that builds up on the shoulders . |