Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My buttocks began to freeze and I was wondering whether to return when I heard the clop of the horse 's hooves and glimpsed Sir John riding vigorously by . |
| 2 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 3 | I knew too that that invitation was bound to come and I was dreading it . |
| 4 | I came here to work and you are stopping me doing that . ’ |
| 5 | Above all , is a fun place to work and I 'm looking forward to the challenges of the future . |
| 6 | They 're finding er as business becomes more competitive , targets are harder to meet and they 're finding they 're becoming more reluctant to stay out — to get away from the office , to take time off . |
| 7 | Is it easy to dismantle and what is knocking ? |
| 8 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 9 | So far our programme had kept well to schedule and we were feeling quite pleased with ourselves . |
| 10 | There 's further to go and we 're gon na keep saying these things until we 're blue in the face , as well as |
| 11 | ‘ Er , well , I 've nowhere to go and it 's causing me something of a problem . ’ |
| 12 | At these meetings they help decide what will happen in the unit — what the Company is going to do , where it is going to go and who is going to do what . |
| 13 | Only days to go and you 're sweating ? |
| 14 | I ask you : just twenty-one years old , leading the Open , six holes to go and he 's going for the green ! |
| 15 | Wearing jeans and a blue shirt , she was tugging at a filing cabinet which was too large for her to embrace and which was threatening to over-balance on her . |
| 16 | I 'm coming to see and you are leaving . |
| 17 | We were on a lonely stretch of road just outside London : it was late in the afternoon , darkness was about to fall and we were arguing about whether we should hurry on to the city or stay at some roadside tavern for the night . |
| 18 | And she said but I 'm too frightened to walk and she was crying . |
| 19 | If we look at a relationship or any type of communication as a situation where somebody 's going to win and somebody 's going to lose there 's not gon na be much chance of two people working together on that so what happens is somebody 's got to lose . |
| 20 | This team wants to play and wants to win and it 's beginning to show . ’ |
| 21 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 22 | But what I thought if you 're going to leave and you 're going in bed and breakfast , I 've got that sandwich toaster , cos get your breakfast , bed and breakfast right ? |
| 23 | A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment . |
| 24 | We do accuse the Liberal Democrats of jumping on the bandwagon at a late stage , but in this they are running true to form and they are confusing the issue by doing their own irrelevant thing . |
| 25 | Children are found in need of care , protection and control if the court establishes that they are not receiving the sort of care a good parent may reasonably be expected to give and they are falling into bad associations , are exposed to moral danger , or the lack of care is likely to cause suffering or seriously affect their health or proper development , or if it establishes that they are beyond the control of their parents . |
| 26 | ‘ Something 's got to give and it 's going to be Nottingham Forest , ’ said Palace striker Paul Williams , who has yet to score for the low-flying Eagles since trading places with Sheffield Wednesday-bound Mark Bright and a £1 million cash adjustment over two months ago . |
| 27 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
| 28 | It 's a bit of a bugger being out there over Christmas but that 's what we 're paid to do and we 're going to do it |
| 29 | And for us to go forward that is the first major thing we need to do and I 'm appealing today that if people can give us two hours on Saturday morning or a Friday afternoon , we need people , we do n't need two people on a street corner cos we 've done it and it is it we do n't get the effect we want , because most people walk past us . |
| 30 | interpretations of his music erm , I , one of the things I would love to do and I 'm hoping to do next year is to do something related to art using a dance |