Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first reasonably reliable and convincing learning task for Drosophila involved training them using just this sense of smell . |
| 2 | There was no-one singing now . |
| 3 | As they were collapsing , the gravitational pull of matter outside these regions might start them rotating slightly . |
| 4 | A puff of wind swung it round on its vane , and snatched a bunch of twigs from its beak and sent them twirling slowly down the steeple to the ground at Carol 's feet , where they sank into the snow . |
| 5 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 6 | And finally , as she went to bed , she heard them singing softly , shushing each other and giggling , as one clear voice ( Sue 's , she recognized ) carried on the melody . |
| 7 | That was what 'd taken my fancy when the plan struck me : I could just see them standing there , mouths opening and shutting , looking at me bringing home this strange new boyfriend , knowing that nice people are polite to their daughters ' boyfriends when they 're thrust in front of their noses but — how can you be polite , darling — or , well , be anything — to this one ? |
| 8 | Mum 's eyes popped to see me bringing home the fireman . |
| 9 | to try and stop them wasting away . |
| 10 | She says that she usually watches them on the River Thames , she 's travelled to Gloucestershire because she 's never seen them nesting before . |
| 11 | We slip out the back gate into a high-walled alley , me denying again that the police could be looking for me , and him smiling . |
| 12 | He saw them laughing carelessly together , ruttish and brutal in their casual coupling . |
| 13 | Marie , on her way back up the long flight of steps from the prom , watched them laughing together . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's lovely hearing them laughing together , ’ their mother Sue said yesterday . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , Beth , I do love you , ’ she said : the two of them laughing all the more when a little voice piped up from its place at the table , ‘ I do love you too ! ’ |
| 16 | I heard them laughing still as the car pulled off down the lane . |
| 17 | And if you could stop them laughing so … so raucously all night and … and' ’ |
| 18 | They have come to their agreement , they have done their job well , and they have produced and excellent education system and the blip which he is talking about is one which is forced on us at the present time by a Conservative Government , who has decided that there is going to be no further expansion in the school service which we 're providing , and indeed is imposing upon us cuts which are going to mean that we reduce those services , and to argue that from a point of view that it 's a considered piece of policy from a Government which if I has introduced , if I may say , Poll Tax , an economy which is a disaster area , exports in nothing happening there , inflation |
| 19 | I think he just wants to keep putting it off ; he might be frightened of me gaining too much independence , or he might simply be scared that I 'll kill myself the way a lot of youths seem to when they get a bike . |
| 20 | I 've got me shoppin' ter do before Will gets 'ome , ’ she said . |
| 21 | So I carried on walking and they start going through this bleeding wood , well they had me climbing over three fence things , all like them metal you know like them metal fences at wood ? |
| 22 | Only if you do n't mind me sayin' so , it 'll be best if you do n't treat her like a private in the Army . ’ |
| 23 | However , he said he always included something above the understanding of his hearers in order to prevent them becoming either complacent or conceited and to stimulate their desire to learn more . |
| 24 | Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises . |
| 25 | The term ‘ rich ’ implies that the pictures should contain a wealth of information relevant to the study ; however , trying to include too much detail can result in them becoming extremely cluttered , and it is often necessary to summarise the detail ( using the interview analysis technique if required ) and redraw them as the study progresses . |
| 26 | Two army medics who were getting ready to deal with such things in the wild were also there , and they kept me laughing so much that I was wobbling up and down while the surgeon was trying to operate . |
| 27 | Mr Goodman said if Laganside was in any doubt about the amount of sludge being dropped by the lorries a representative should be sent to watch them driving past . |
| 28 | I was very cold but I prevented them driving away . |
| 29 | He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness . |
| 30 | It was a strange time , with the end of the war in sight , people feeling suspended , nothing appearing very permanent or real . |