Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Th they wo n't pay for them to go swimming |
| 2 | Erm it seems to me that the emphasis has changed slightly in the representations being made by the West Yorkshire authorities and that they 're now saying that it 's much more difficult for them to accommodate housing developments within their own er districts . |
| 3 | Vogue assured its readers that ‘ everyone goes cruising and the trouble is not to find a cruise but to choose from the numberless , almost equally alluring cruises that are most suited to one 's particular fancy ’ . |
| 4 | Everyone goes shopping in Oxford . |
| 5 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 6 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 7 | Leaving me to continue cleaning up , my husband climbed the ladder into the roof space to see what the situation was there . |
| 8 | It was a modest success in its own way , enabling me to risk becoming a full-time freelance , and I shall always be grateful for that . |
| 9 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 10 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 11 | On that occasion , much of the room was in darkness , and the two gentlemen were sitting side by side midway down the table — it being much too broad to allow them to sit facing one another — within the pool of light cast by the candles on the table and the crackling hearth opposite . |
| 12 | Perhaps our HCI Rep will persuade me to go sailing . |
| 13 | Any time now he 's going to ask me to go roller-skating . |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't expect me to go hefting bowls of boiling water . |
| 15 | You ca n't really expect me to go fishing about underneath your bed if I do n't even know what I might find under it , now can you ? ’ |
| 16 | Why do you always force me to go chasing after you ? ’ |
| 17 | You want me to go jumping out of Dorniers again at five thousand feet in the dark like last time over Ireland and you try to hand me that kind of bollocks . ’ |
| 18 | But you did n't expect me to go rummaging around in Paula 's diary , did you ? ’ |
| 19 | " It 's just that it 's all very well to talk about his responsibility and all that — nobody thinks how awful it would be for me to go crawling to him wailing , I 'm in tro-uble ? |
| 20 | Sometimes she would ask me to go blackberrying with her or , as she would say , to open a tin of tangerines with her . |
| 21 | It may well be that some of them regret having made the decision . |
| 22 | Nothing goes missing . |
| 23 | A range of pine furniture ready for me to paint according to your needs . |
| 24 | There 's not so much wanking going on as there was , now it 's all on offer , so everyone thinks eating saturated fat makes you blind , and they 've all got obsessed with what they put in their mouths instead of in their … ’ |
| 25 | None of them got icing on today . |
| 26 | In short , a stable and caring society in which everyone can live in reasonable comfort and security and to which everyone contributes according to their means . |
| 27 | Their proud father had them painted wearing their new finery . |
| 28 | Do they mean none transferable from person to person or from book to book , erm , for everything it does n't say and if they know , both of them stopped sending out those |
| 29 | When friends asked me out I had to turn them down and one or two of them stopped calling round . |
| 30 | One witness described the scene as they uncovered 18 bodies : ‘ Everyone starts digging frantically , some with spades , others with pick-axes , and others with their bare hands . |