Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 2 | He pays the small amount and in fact I keep on meaning at the back of my brain to get hold of him and say has he been paying it . |
| 3 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 4 | I carry on walking down the street , careful not to bump into people so I do n't fall over again . |
| 5 | I carry on talking with the same chattiness and speed that got Jane Austen 's heroines into trouble . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , the reports and test results we issue are not all welcomed by manufacturers but there really is only a tiny percentage who end up carping about the magazine . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's always tea-time here , and you go on moving round the table . |
| 8 | ‘ If you go on standing in the way any longer I 'll take you to court . ’ |
| 9 | if you end up going to the office and it 's the same layout as it it it was and the same people there , |
| 10 | If the boat capsizes because it 's overpowered simply scramble into the high side until you end up standing on the daggerboard . |
| 11 | erm some of the stuff that we end up doing in the second and final year you do n't easily access through general textbooks because it 's quite specialist |
| 12 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 13 | We burst out giggling at the sight of his bare bottom and we were still tittering when the door burst open and Mrs Taylor entered . |
| 14 | What will happen to their pay packets when they end up working in the private sector , often for less money — because we know that the national health service is simply a Bill away from being privatised ? |
| 15 | A PAIR of TV newsreaders have been suspended from duty after they burst out laughing during the evening news . |
| 16 | A few of us sit around talking into the night , women 's talk about operations and illnesses , birth , blood and death . |