Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morris suddenly felt tired ; the doctored wine was not giving him the uplift he needed . |
| 2 | When she found her mother was no longer giving her the attention she craved she worked harder to obtain it so she strewed more objects on the floor . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it . |
| 4 | I 've grown up liking it the way it is , with the English art constantly juxtaposed with that from other places . |
| 5 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |