Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What are you doing that makes you fall asleep in the middle of the day ? ’ |
| 2 | Was it because of the passion that the excuse me , these women seem to er , be pres having that made them think that er , it was n't er a male who wrote the book or not ? |
| 3 | And because we 're doing this do we get them discount ? |
| 4 | Lucenzo , are you doing this to make me go home ? ’ |
| 5 | What the admiring spectators did n't see was Zarei sitting in the first aid room and insisting those helping him look away as he took off his socks , ‘ because I do n't want to frighten you ’ , and later on slipping a tape of Irish Folk music in to his Walkman as he went back on to the track and muttering quietly to himself , ‘ that will help me stop thinking of the pain ’ . |