Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 2 | I can remember only walking beside her in the dusk towards Regent 's Park , because we both wanted darkness and to be alone . |
| 3 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 4 | He stopped in his tracks , gently swaying with her to the music . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm perfectly content to go on living with you under the original terms . |
| 6 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 7 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 8 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 9 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 10 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 11 | They were already waiting for her at the field , but she had no objection to being hustled aboard . |
| 12 | But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave . |
| 13 | I know , you see him , he 's walking and you see him , he 's going ruff , ruff and she 's going and I thought , no , man , I do n't care if I 'm friends with her no I 'm not going near her with the dog . |
| 14 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 15 | Can not you see him as well as myself ; Is he not sitting behind me at the bed 's head , to seize upon me for his victim , as soon as I have breathed my last ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And I am not talking to him in the other room . ’ |
| 17 | There 'll be plenty of atmosphere , even just flogging round it in the cloud , ’ we agreed , pulling into the clammy , deserted car park at Pen y Pas with hearts in boots . ’ |
| 18 | Officially , I mean , not just bumping into him in the Lords ’ bar . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm not quarrelling with you about the money . |
| 20 | I 'm not gon na it on the floor . |
| 21 | Finney had known Harwood for a long time before finally working with him on the film of The Dresser . |
| 22 | I used to see him every day , basically , every night , just working with him in the studio and stuff , and I think it will always be there , thinking of him and everything . |
| 23 | It will go on waiting for you until the day you enter it . |
| 24 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 25 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 26 | And : ‘ I hear people are always writing to her about the deaths of their hearts . ’ |
| 27 | Financially , and for security , the English scene has a bit more going for us at the moment . |
| 28 | Miss Kenton was still waiting for me in the hallway and we ascended through the house in silence . |
| 29 | ‘ She 's hardly speaking to me at the moment — except to accuse me of stealing her golf-clubs . ’ |
| 30 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |