Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What do you think about us moving into the big villa which is being built at Praia do Carvoeiro ? ’ |
| 2 | The electric kettle broke down and will not work unless somebody stands beside it holding in the knob . |
| 3 | I held it while a hand moved over me checking for the hardware . |
| 4 | I have certainly heard of it happening in the present day , but the old methods are dying out as people become alienated from the countryside they live in . |
| 5 | That 's it , she can watch for you coming through the door . |
| 6 | Handed in letter from my father stating that he had no other relatives in the area and because of his blindness and disability he would benefit from them moving into the area . |
| 7 | Listening to them complaining about the usual stuff ! |
| 8 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 9 | Her sisters-in-law excluded her from their gossip ; the servants behaved towards her with greater formality and at least once a day she was summoned to Dona Marguerita 's room to sit with her and listen to her talking about the family 's history and her hopes and ambitions for João . |
| 10 | The place I got , I used to hate going to bed — it was so damp , I had to listen to it dripping off the curtains . |
| 11 | But the odds appear to be stacked against him appearing in the Battle of Britain Part II , at Elland Road . |
| 12 | Durrant is delighted to be included in the squad , but do n't look for him playing from the start . |
| 13 | If in the end we wish to locate God in the destruction of Jericho , should we not search for him lying in the dust with the rest of his people of that city , like them hacked to pieces ? |
| 14 | Mm , can you see with me sitting in the middle ? |
| 15 | He half turned from her looking towards the house , saying now , ‘ Is Maggie ready ? ’ |
| 16 | Modern Parasitology is an uneven book and needs a standard text to go with it according to the editor , T. E. G. Cox . |
| 17 | Needless to say , the taxation liability is ultimately a personal one for the partner — assessed on him according to the profit-sharing formula . |
| 18 | Sometimes you would see people who lived in it walking past the camp . |
| 19 | She took another step forward , and saw the few personal items she had brought with her lying on the floor . |
| 20 | A real threat existed , because she responded to him physically , a threat to so much that she valued as part of her individual identity , autonomy , independence , pride , all of which would be lost if ever the weakness he created in her led to her succumbing to the dark attraction he held for her . |
| 21 | Those two had a photo to watch for you coming off the plane — which means you must have been followed to Helsinki Airport . |
| 22 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 23 | And it was quite ni actually although I was hurrying because I thought of them sitting in the car erm it was very pleasant walking , very slippery though along by Walford cemetery and all down there . |
| 24 | ( The RSV seems clear enough when it speaks of them looking into the ark ( 6.19 ) , but the Hebrew will not really bear that sense , and would suggest they merely looked at it . |
| 25 | Let us distinguish between the two words ‘ atonement ’ and ‘ salvation ’ : atonement refers to a past event , but salvation speaks of it continuing into the future . |
| 26 | She opened the heavy oak doors and the dogs swept past her bounding across the drive to their master who was opening up the car boot to remove his luggage . |
| 27 | ‘ He described quite graphically — to me personally — how he felt with it seeping through the blindfold and beginning to sting and then burn at his eyes so that he was finally forced to open them in order to blink . |
| 28 | Nor do I see any support in earlier judgments which have been cited to us relating to the predecessors of section 236 or to comparable sections for such a limitation to ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’ |
| 29 | Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over . |
| 30 | The young , dark man looked at it lying on the floor . |