Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is beautiful this song , it 's all about everyone loving each other and |
| 2 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 3 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's about everyone having their own Everest to climb . |
| 5 | ‘ And I think , after all the hours I have put in for nothing teaching you to ride , that you owe it to me to do your level best to win this competition . |
| 6 | It 'll make the difference between me going back to work and not being able to go back to work . |
| 7 | Philip had forgotten temporarily about them moving from Little Knoll , what with getting Caspar out of the tractor-shed and thinking of Lee making his way up to Jubilee Wood . |
| 8 | Right You know you were talking about them deleting all er references ? |
| 9 | Did you ever hear them talk about them smuggling the whisky through the glen ? |
| 10 | ‘ I think I would have known if she was very upset about them splitting up . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd had ideas about them buying somewhere of their own , but so far they 'd had to stay as ideas . |
| 12 | You were right about them operatin' an outside patrol , as y'kin see . |
| 13 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |
| 14 | We have to allow disabled people access to this equipment , if we are serious about them taking part in the planning and evaluation of services . |
| 15 | Yeah but you were moaning about them taking er all the detail off . |
| 16 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 17 | The result was that in spite of some misgivings about the script and the incessantly repetitive dialogue about them doing their own thing , reviewers spoke glowingly of ‘ an actor named Jack Nicholson … is magnificent ’ and ‘ he gave a brilliantly witty performance ’ . |
| 18 | I 've never read a U2 interview so I do n't know if there are rumours about them doing insane things . |
| 19 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 20 | I have written to one or two retail outlets complaining about them selling these fish , also spoken to a couple of managers but they are still selling these fish . |
| 21 | He wondered if Rufus had children and if so did he worry about them coming to terrible harm the way Adam worried ? |
| 22 | But er But I 've known that story about the er about them coming up that way and they stayed at the the burnside at Dalvaine . |
| 23 | Do n't worry about them coming out on strike . |
| 24 | Remember the other month , it was in the papers , was n't it ? about them tearing the clothes off that one who tried to queer their pitch ? |
| 25 | She was right about them letting me out . |
| 26 | It got harder to laugh at the weekly brace of ‘ Kurt Is Dead ’ stories when various credible sources were whispering about Cobain and partner Courtney Love doing heroin together , about them being completely out of it all at their wedding in Hawaii , about them going into detox and then quitting . |
| 27 | There are jokes even now when I go in the market about them glowing in the dark . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I think we 're more relaxed when we play covers because we 're not so worried about them sounding good as when we 're doing our own songs , ’ says Gedge . |
| 29 | And about them fighting and making their voices heard . |
| 30 | But some gun dealers have stopped selling replicas , because they 're worried about them falling into the wrong hands . |