Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and her friends seldom discussed the concept of happiness : when they were not either bored or depressed they were having a good time and enjoying themselves . |
| 2 | One way or another I 'm going to have to decide over the weekend — and it 's looking unlikely I 'll be driving at Easter , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Anyhow the upshot is , one way or another I 'm lying in the front seat of the Boomerang with my trousers round my knees and copping a twenty-dollar blowjob from a speed-fuelled Zulu called Agnes . |
| 4 | erm particularly with planners but there is no doubt , and I , and this is no joking matter , that there are an awful lot of agencies of one sort or another who are finding that they are actually having to get on with other agencies . |
| 5 | However , even at kindergarten his rebellious streak was showing and at the age of five or six he was playing truant . |
| 6 | And I suppose what I was thinking was that when he 's worked till five or six he was doing it every day , but he has n't . |
| 7 | Its all very well scoring , but we need a midfielder or three who are gon na set the tempo . |
| 8 | Sooner or later something was going to snap . |
| 9 | Sooner or later someone is going to be killed in such an accident . |
| 10 | We knew that sooner or later someone was going to buy it and there comes a point when , if something is going to add value for your shareholders , you should contemplate doing it on a hostile basis . ’ |
| 11 | A major and highly publicised target has been the welfare ‘ scroungers ’ , whether these are young people allegedly on the ‘ Costa del Dole ‘ , looking for seasonal casual work in seaside towns , or those who are claiming while working . |
| 12 | Will it be the organised medical practitioners as we know them today or those who are practising in the area ? |
| 13 | Unfortunately these two categories overlap , whilst those temporary workers ( or those who are giving proxy answers for them ) who are unsure of the precise nature of their temporary employment are also more likely to describe themselves as falling into the first category . |
| 14 | Individuals on current salaries of £75,000 or more who are thinking of changing jobs and either joining a new scheme or transferring their existing pension to one will need to weigh up the financial consequences . |
| 15 | Within a month or two we were getting pretty good at it . |
| 16 | And here 's , here 's , hold on a minute here 's , here 's something else here 's a statistic , in America in America , when a policeman , every time a policeman fires his gun and I 'm not talking about one or two I 'm talking everyone , it 's a statistic , you all know what statistics is I hope ? |
| 17 | ‘ For a moment or two I was flying past the stars on silver wings . |
| 18 | After a year or two I was nipping out at lunchtime to pick up a new skirt for the office party , calling at the dry cleaners , handing in the photos to be developed and meeting friends for lunch with the best of them . |
| 19 | When they do n't have enough time , teachers know , even if they are fairly successful at not thinking about it , that in some way or other they are letting down their pupils , their colleagues or themselves . |
| 20 | They said , they erm they said something or other they were going to be closing down somewhere in Cornwall because the Directory Enquiry service was not being used |
| 21 | Erm somehow or other it 's going to come along and I think most people 's thinkings are that it will be shown as a tax item on the ticket as are the taxes in other countries |
| 22 | So if you 're hoping to make me feel guilty or bad you 're wasting your time ! ’ |
| 23 | Now if there is no problem why on earth do we have to put that sort of that sort of work by officers erm , in , in to action erm , so between the , if I understand Labour 's position now Chairman , between the twenty fifth of August and the twenty eighth of September , we have now gone from accepting the problem and seeing how we can solve a number problem to saying that there is no no number problem and that everyone is cooking the books . |
| 24 | The extension will also have the effect that the offences of theft and criminal deception will overlap and that conduct which under the present law is larceny by a trick and that which is obtaining by false pretences will be the same offence of criminal deception . |
| 25 | had her operation and that everything 's going well , and I 'm sure will take our best wishes to her , when er , he goes home after the meeting . |
| 26 | But how do you be really , how do you not scare yourselves from going out ? gon na return to your homes and that everything 's going to be left as it was ? |
| 27 | Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task . |
| 28 | They put a drug on the market and they say that it 's wonderful and that the side effects are irrelevant and very slight and that everybody 's gon na be very happy and it 's a new wonder drug and it 'll change the world and is n't that marvellous . |
| 29 | she 's getting through all right and that one 's getting through all right , yeah she 's coming next to us . |
| 30 | and that one 's going back erm |