Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I intend leaving you in charge , Seb . ’ |
| 2 | I tried calling you in Budapest on Friday and Saturday but could n't get a reply . |
| 3 | A new set of feelings about the baby had begun to emerge since I had nearly lost it , and I wanted to be sure that they were going to take root before I risked dispersing them with talk . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's time I began telling you about Constanza . |
| 5 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I remember seeing them in churches , carved in stone . |
| 7 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 8 | I dislike using them in conversation , for they can add a measure of artificiality to what should otherwise be casual . |
| 9 | I started nagging him about money , about not having a proper job and no guts to get one … |
| 10 | And like I started doing it , I 'll read it out in English I started writing it in French came to a word I did n't know and thought ah leave it ! |
| 11 | I started doing it with pot , breaking a little bit , squashing it on the foil and smoking it as though I was having a chase . |
| 12 | It seems I keep running them under Tom 's nose |
| 13 | For almost the whole flight I kept asking her about life in England . |
| 14 | I think comparing it to Paradise is a bit strong , but I know what you mean ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think taking them to Devon is a great idea , ’ she 'd enthused . |
| 16 | I liked the Pocket Gem , it worked flawlessly , but I preferred using it with WinFax Pro , which even lists the relatively new Gem in its list of supported modems . |
| 17 | Yeah , yeah it 's not compatible or summat er it 's compatible with his telly when he has n't got the Sky on and if he 's got the Sky on he 's got to mess about I sat watching him for days messing with it and then I says to him have you got it on your V U channel ? |
| 18 | ‘ I 've come to find out what you 've done with Kirsty — and when you intend returning her to Lomond View . ’ |
| 19 | She tried exchanging it for Fleury 's but that was just as hard . |
| 20 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 21 | er Red er Leicester , I got a lump last and there was no taste at all and on the second day , we not having a proper fridge just er , a a fridge you know keeping it in store |
| 22 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 23 | ‘ I would dearly love to know why you keep sticking me with motives that I just do n't have ! |
| 24 | Alone with her , he floundered ; she kept pushing him under water , teased him with planks that did n't float . |
| 25 | She kept examining me for bullet wounds , I think . |
| 26 | Well , yes they do overwhelm you until you start associating them with services that are provided by that finance with the people whose lives are affected by them , and erm you break them down and obviously all councillors , I think , have areas of special interest and so you become much more familiar with particular areas of the Council 's expenditure erm rather than necessarily being very , very precisely informed about every single area . |
| 27 | If you prefer doing it on horseback , there are stables in nearby Going where tuition is available . |
| 28 | There was nothing that could be used for a cradle so obviously she intended keeping it in bed with her , but Sarah had heard tales of babies being smothered like that and she was surprisingly anxious that her newly expected brother or sister would n't end up that way . |
| 29 | Having to absorb this phenomenon — for such the eighteen-and-a-half-year-old became within a month or two , despite all the swirl of competition ( from local airfields and ancient academies ) — the Oxford undergraduates graciously invented a school and background which made it easier for them to justify taking him on board . |
| 30 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |