Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 2 | You 'll find me banging on about how great the ‘ Back In Denim ’ LP is elsewhere in this issue so you can drop most of the theories there . |
| 3 | She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope that no one has seen you hanging about round here . ’ |
| 5 | Are you looking back on tomorrow then ? |
| 6 | Well fo a at sixteen I went into the department that built the machines and er I was , I think it was bell was going for lunchtime and a lad come by says hello Taffy how you going on in here ? |
| 7 | Are you going back to now ? |
| 8 | ‘ So where are you heading off to now ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | ‘ How are you getting on over there ? ’ he asked , cautiously . |
| 10 | But he was talking to me , and he said , he said ah how , how you getting on over there , and he went yeah , yeah , it 's alright , you know , but it 's not where I want to be , you know , away from me family . |
| 11 | I ca n't bear to see you lolling about in here when it 's so glorious outside ’ . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Are you coming out of there ? ’ |
| 13 | What we going up to now then ? |
| 14 | Erm , actually on reflection , having seen the bit of disaster that occurred because erm unfortunately Freda did n't get the phone call until early Christmas day morning off her daughter , to say that instead of them coming up to here to see them that something had happened in London , could they go down to her , so she was prepared to do us a half an hour at half past one and then she was going to drive to London ! |
| 15 | The curriculum areas accorded the greatest number of teacher-days were maths , English and science , with English accounting for more than twice as many as science , and these two areas between them taking up about as many teacher-days as maths on its own . |
| 16 | She looked at him blankly , conscious of the anticlimax that had brought her tumbling down from out of the clouds , then she nodded , while making an effort to convey the impression that his kiss had failed to have the slightest effect upon her . |
| 17 | He gets annoyed if I say anything about it , but that does n't stop him going on about how slim I was at 17 when we first met . |
| 18 | Ken Clarke was my minister of roads and I remember him coming back on more than one occasion with steam coming out of his ears . |
| 19 | ‘ If we were close to a town I would n't even inform you , ’ Maggie said evenly , the desire to needle him coming out of nowhere . |
| 20 | But he was always prepared to turn off the tape and listen to her ranting on about how she missed Ricky and how bloody the Argentines were being to her and to their horses . |
| 21 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 22 | The main problem to prevent me playing on for too many years to come will be the competition from younger players at Middlesex . |
| 23 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 24 | She could not read it : what was he turning over in there , on the eve of their party ? |
| 25 | ‘ Why is he holding out until then ? ’ |
| 26 | what 's he coming round for then ? |