Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [v-ing] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did n't get married four times because I like trolling down the aisle , I got married four times because I like the idea of being married and I like sharing my life with a man . |
| 2 | I like starting off the day with a ten mile run followed by |
| 3 | now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did . |
| 4 | I remember picking up the film and making my way back to Derek 's , although even now the memory 's a little hazy , and then I started to feel light-headed and dizzy . |
| 5 | I remember walking up the fairway and saying to him , ‘ You 're not that good ! ’ |
| 6 | I keep getting out the video and watching it . |
| 7 | I keep squinting out the window of the 188 bus to recognize where it was we hid Patterson . |
| 8 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 9 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 10 | I start going back the way I came . |
| 11 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 12 | The priests had a mulberry tree , which last year had come near to ruining the woman 's trade , spattering the linen of the town with a roan signature , as the pulpy fruit fell from its higher branches , or was dropped by feasting birds or even wasps ; in fact , she did not know how so much staining happened , but it was the devil to scrub it out , and she risked wearing out the cloth itself with ammonia or other solvents . |
| 13 | Dumb Why do you like picking up the telephone so much ? |
| 14 | ‘ Then why do you keep looking out the window ? ’ |
| 15 | you know working out the potential of their land and how they can erm use their land and their properties to the best |
| 16 | While she started sorting out the lettuce from the spinach I took my leave and went up to my room . |
| 17 | She remembers running up the aisle , but mass had ended . |
| 18 | The secret of Shirley 's success lies in the fact that the tears she sends rolling down the cheek are prompted by laughter , but tinged with the searing kind of sadness associated with unfulfilled hopes . |
| 19 | If you try working out the return on a single room , using the well-known 1:1,000 room rate:room cost ratio , assuming a realistic annual occupancy rate ( say 65 per cent ) and providing for interest and tax , you will realize that it could take several decades to recover the original cost . |
| 20 | She went flying up the garden ! |
| 21 | I found that after 2 hours of playing the small adventure game called Wumpus my friends youngest child lost all her worries about pressing the wrong key , except that she kept falling down the cavern when she did . |
| 22 | So why have you started taking up the bag ? |
| 23 | ‘ A companion for you , my dear , ’ she said sliding back the lid . |
| 24 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 25 | And one day we were coming along and these local ladies were coming towards us said oh we love going down the country roads and you know , oh look at all these poor refugees ! |
| 26 | ‘ And you are both ready for the bazaar , I see , ’ he said , for he had already watched them carry through the packing-cases filled with their work , ready to be transported on Mr Hanson the grocer 's small cart , due to call at Vetch Street at ten o'clock , for them to start setting out the stall . |
| 27 | Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club ! |
| 28 | It was like something from a restoration comedy as he crouched in his flat in Bateman Street and they began beating down the door . |
| 29 | A month later , they began stripping down the provision cart to use for a pageant . |
| 30 | They included setting aside the whole or part of any obligation imposed on a debtor , requiring the creditor to repay the whole or part of any sum paid under the credit bargain , direct the return to the surety of any property provided for security , altering the terms of the credit agreement . |