Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah that 's a nice er , slot , were you looking to go out in the garden ? |
| 2 | How long are you going to go on with the farce of keeping this bloody lot in business ? " |
| 3 | Are you going to finish off in the kid 's room ? |
| 4 | ‘ How — how are you going to get back to the château ? |
| 5 | Nor was she going to give in to the warm and leaping sensations being generated in her by the slow , rhythmic stroking of his fingers . |
| 6 | What are you hoping to get down on the list this month ? |
| 7 | He rasped , ‘ Are n't you longing to get back to the bright lights ? ’ |
| 8 | Or are we going to go along with the priorities that our non-Christian friends have ? |
| 9 | One good way of judging a well-planned interview schedule of the formal type is to ask ‘ Could this schedule be handed over to someone else for analysis without them having to go back to the interviewer to ask what certain answers mean ? ’ |
| 10 | The impact as well as the shock of the bullet wound knocked him crashing face down to the ground , his legs all mixed up with the trolley 's wheels . |
| 11 | ‘ I walked round her bed I could see her lying face up under the bedclothes , ’ he said . |
| 12 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 13 | He compounded this appalling error of judgement by standing up to applaud the winners , a misguided attempt at gallantry which resulted in me trying to run out of the stadium and refusing to talk to him all the way home . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're all mad , ’ said a red-nosed Bardolphian Gefreiter , ‘ I wish I could be a prisoner : you would n't catch me trying to get back to the war ’ |
| 15 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |