Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm only going to ask you these questions once , ’ he said , ‘ so listen . |
| 2 | Now here was this gifted sister , who had so many opportunities that he had been denied , apparently threatening to throw them all down the drain , and bury herself in some backwater in Africa . |
| 3 | I was only trying to give you some support , Claudia . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've spent so long trying to block it all out . |
| 5 | He had never been this close to him before , though of course he had seen him from a distance on parade , the short , brisk figure in green and white , dwarfed by the forest of cocked hats around , yet somehow contriving to dominate them all . |
| 6 | I 'm just going to give her some milk . ’ |
| 7 | I was just going to bring you some . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm I 'm pleased it 's flavour of the month because it 's just going to show you all when w when you listen to his words . |
| 9 | Well I 'm just coming to ask you that |
| 10 | If you 're just trying to remember them all and you 've got all these words and letters floating round in your head it 's quite awkward is n't it trying to sort them out which is which cos there are you know millions of words . |
| 11 | I sympathize because in my little way I grieve too , but over the people in my life I have allowed to die without ever having shown them any particular affection . |
| 12 | He bent down , still trying to keep them both at the same height . |
| 13 | I designed windows suited to all positions , and of all varieties of size form and grouping doorways cornices parapets and imaginary combinations of all these , carefully studying to make them all thoroughly by practical , and suited to the class of building . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're really goin' to miss you both , we really are … . ’ |
| 15 | If your tactics are basically to run straight towards the enemy and hit him hard then a bolt thrower is n't really going to do you any good . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm now going to ask you some questions . ’ |
| 17 | So she forbore to do so altogether , even to Cedric , and as she lay in her bed that day , her arm now beginning to give her some considerable pain , she would willingly ( she knew ) have cracked two of her ribs rather than chipped a couple of her teeth . |
| 18 | I am even going to give you some , which I should not do for someone who knows nothing about wine . ’ |
| 19 | Anyway , arrived at the station and there was this great coach standing there waiting to take them all to . |
| 20 | I understand , so in other words your research is n't actually going to tell us more than |
| 21 | I think you 've probably let us in for it now Frank cos she 's almost certainly going to send us some . |
| 22 | I told her she was telling porkies because I knew for sure that God put it there as a sign he was never going to drown us all again or otherwise wreck the planet . |