Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
| 2 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 3 | There was a spare one lying around We 'd finished u er stopped using them during the war some time during the war . |
| 4 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 5 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 6 | The Hammers are considering a move for the 31-year-old , but Crosby said : ‘ I would n't consider selling him at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Did you enjoy trapping me in the library ? ’ asked Mr Fractor . |
| 8 | So I intended to try flying her for the assembly , and carefully got her down to her flying weight . |
| 9 | I 've even considered reporting it to the health people |
| 10 | ‘ She did n't consider accompanying you on the search for her daughter ? ’ |
| 11 | But young children had reported spotting him inside the school , putting paper on to the fire . |
| 12 | He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre . |
| 13 | Stop touching me in the knee Derek ! |
| 14 | This man , Tepilit , was injured helping me with the filming of a lion hunt . |
| 15 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 16 | Gwenellen thought neither , as if Marcus tonight was anything like Marcus last night Old Red would be far too busy to remember meeting me in the subway . |
| 17 | Jim Richards describes spotting him on the terrace of Shepheard 's Hotel , Cairo . |
| 18 | No sooner have the Doctor and Vicki gone than the erstwhile school teachers are captured by slave traders who intend selling them at the slave markets in Rome . |
| 19 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 20 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 21 | Yeah er they , they would n't have come out with some of the things about er I ca n't remember what was said that erm you know er would n't mind meeting you in the bath or |
| 22 | Your brother perhaps will not mind fetching them from the Commissariat . |
| 23 | Would you mind getting it from the car ? ’ |
| 24 | I do n't even like having them on the island , not even Mrs Clamp , who comes every week on a Saturday to clean the house and deliver our supplies . |
| 25 | But I do so like having you in the game . |
| 26 | It is only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance of their own revolting offspring , that we start shouting , ‘ Bring us a basin ! |
| 27 | I I do n't mind watching it without the noise . |
| 28 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 29 | By continually sharing speaking and listening — if you are trying to convey something , it is very distracting if the receiver keeps interrupting you in the middle of a sentence . |
| 30 | she , keeps checking me for the thyroid as well now , every time I go and the tablets are all going haywire , she takes a blood test , a blood thing you know , your pulse every time I go |