Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however , it raised my Curiosity very much : And happening to meet with her a Day or two afterwards , I begg 'd the Favour of seeing it ; which was readily granted . |
| 2 | But because Mrs did that work with you yesterday you did not do your history work , so I 'm going to talk to you a bit and ask you some questions about the tiny bit we talked about to do with Roman Britain and how the Romans invaded Britain two thousand years ago . |
| 3 | Cara smiled , and confided , ‘ Actually , I was wondering what I was going to do with myself the four weeks he 's away — I 've sort of got used to having him around , ’ she tossed in , as if uncaring , when they all knew differently . |
| 4 | That 's the next step we st we may need to treat your tummy with something else after that but I think that 's rather go going to depend on what the chest X-ray shows , and how you feel . |
| 5 | Let's say that you give one of your people a six month project to work on , you 've agreed with them as part of the parameters that you 're going to check with them every two months on it , where do you put those reminders to yourself ? |
| 6 | Yeah what I was going to say to you the only thing is will you put a plug up . |
| 7 | I looked up , my eyes wide , expecting to find in his an echo of the chill of waste . |
| 8 | It is quite common in talking about teaching to focus on what the teacher does and to forget the effect this may have on the learner . |
| 9 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 10 | In the meantime , they are learning to live in what the Poles call a ‘ grey area ’ , the Czechoslovaks and Hungarians a ‘ vacuum ’ . |
| 11 | Also , interestingly , Labour was trying to claim for itself the new Prospective owner-occupiers with a promise of low interest mortgages for low income earners . |
| 12 | Due to lack of governmental or any other official support this unique and valuable organisation has had to suspend its training activities temporarily , whilst trying to secure for itself a sound and permanent financial basis for the future . |
| 13 | Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys . |
| 14 | She had observed the Palazzo 's comings and goings , trying to sniff from them a sense of the life within . |
| 15 | ‘ Will I ? ’ asked Pascoe , trying to conceal from himself the effort he had to make to keep up with Dalziel down the corridor . |
| 16 | His father-in-law had given up trying to explain to him the different cuts of meat . |
| 17 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 19 | This is the time of year when we all rack our brains to think of the perfect Christmas present , so if you are planning to look for something a bit different for the machine knitter in the family , this could be the ideal gift . |