Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I got to glancing through the ledgers , and before I knew it , the time had flown . ’ |
2 | I came to sitting on the sofa still holding the broken pot in my hand . |
3 | The first thing I noticed on getting into the ground was that the Leeds fans were making most , no , all of the noise in the ground . |
4 | I stepped without thinking onto the polished square and tried words instead . |
5 | A fridge I lied about swinging through the trees ! |
6 | I decided against looking into the tumbledown wooden hut that had once housed the coal hopper controls . |
7 | I started by looking at the chromosome patterns , of course — remember the men who are born with an extra Y chromosome , who show aggressive behavior and antisocial tendencies . |
8 | Then I thought of going across the road and throwing them in a skip — except that this would look very peculiar . |
9 | Three and a half years ago I described my experience of a meeting I attended for briefing on the brave new world of budget holding , the wild card of the recently published NHS Review . |
10 | There were certainly questions that I had in listening to the lecture and reading of the material and erm as herself said , there does seem to be something of an in own thinking about this . |
11 | Part of the fun for them came from commenting on the other dancers and inventing private nicknames for them , such as Big Feet , Sir Galahad , Merrylegs , Dreamboat , and many others . |
12 | According to Southwood , phytophagy arose from both saprophagy , the consumption of decaying or at least dying plants , and from feeding on fallen propagules including spores and pollen grains , which led to living on the strobili themselves , a route followed by the extinct insect orders , Dictyoneurida and Diaphanopterida . |
13 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
14 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
15 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
16 | Quite apart from the work which went into recording on the main islands of the Outer Hebrides , a great deal of effort also went into visiting the less accessible islands and outliers . |
17 | I mean , he likes women , and she operated by sleeping with the boss . ’ |
18 | Table 4.6 takes all those who were able to give an answer at both first and second assessments ( third assessment is omitted as numbers able to give an answer on all three occasions were very small ) , and compares the action and control samples on : the number who admitted to worrying in the past month ; said they had been sad or depressed ; said they had often been lonely ; and admitted to being not very or not at all happy ( for analysis of all items in the depression scale used in the interviews see Lindesay & Murphy , 1988 ) . |
19 | Thérèse had the pocket torch she used for reading under the bedclothes . |
20 | If ( hopefully ) a solution is reached , the approach you adopted for working through the conflict is discussed . |
21 | Hanger was also well supported by his lead , Ray Gaskins who vied in drawing to the jack with his opposite number , new international Palmer . |
22 | Perhaps you could start off by telling me how you came into working in the lock trade . |
23 | She confirmed in writing to the company that she intended to return to work on 11 February 1991 . |
24 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
25 | She lifted a bottle of Champagne from among the photographs cluttering the occasional table beside her and passed it to Charity with an instruction to fill the glasses and hold the chatter , because she insisted on listening to the nine o'clock news on the wireless . |
26 | I managed to persuade Catherine to come in , but she insisted on sleeping in the kitchen , in case Heathcliff returned during the night . |
27 | Still trying to make reality match with her fantasy , she took to napping on the beach in the afternoons . |
28 | Martha delighted in turning on the taps in the bathroom and watching water pour out at her command , and when that attraction palled she took to rushing into the kitchen to watch the maid turn on the fire . |
29 | She thought of looking at the doctor and indicating that he should interfere and stop it ; but she did not . |
30 | Waiting for him , she thought of getting into the big bed . |