Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that the board you buy has a large daggerboard ( longer than 50cm ) which fully retracts into the hull leaving nothing sticking out under the board . |
| 2 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 3 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 4 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 5 | Once she kept me hanging around for an hour and a half , which might sound like a backward step , but you have to remember she was sitting in a place of her own choice , and was taking it all in . |
| 6 | COLWYN BAY 'S BJ Welsh Knockout Cup campaign ended in disaster when unfancied Pontblyddyn sent them crashing out with a seven-wicket blasting . |
| 7 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 8 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 9 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 10 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 11 | You could hear them squeaking off from a distance . |
| 12 | And then they heard me tearing out of the sound-web . |
| 13 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 14 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 15 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 16 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 17 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 18 | I going round for a collection too . |
| 19 | No way was I going out with a Famlio ship in my flight path . |
| 20 | Forgotten that she had thought she had seen someone moving around in the darkness . |
| 21 | The ‘ female ’ could be a female impersonator , or someone in disguise , or an actor on the way to a theatre ; the ‘ angry ’ or ‘ excited ’ person could be deaf , or someone calling out to a friend some distance away . |
| 22 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 23 | It was well after midnight , getting on for one o'clock , when I went to open the bedroom window , and saw someone coming up through the garden from the bay . ’ |
| 24 | And pause like someone coming out of a wood . |
| 25 | This reassures me that the band are clear about what they are trying to do , and it is far easier for me to get excited by someone coming in with a plan and an idea . |
| 26 | My becoming homeless was not a result of my dropping out of a system which probably would have supported me until retirement age ; it was the result of a chain of events which took place much , much later . |
| 27 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 28 | Some people might say I do n't show any emotion but every time a goal went in there always seemed to be a picture of someone jumping up from the bench . |
| 29 | The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife . |
| 30 | For example , someone setting out on a journey to a malarial zone would be best advised to rely on drugs rather than trusting the stars ' message alone as a protection against the disease . |