Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 2 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
| 3 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
| 4 | And that 's you waking up in the morning . |
| 5 | I says , what was she doing down in the shop the other day ? |
| 6 | The explanation appears to be that shepherds at high altitudes reverse their cigars in their mouths to prevent them blowing out in the wind ! |
| 7 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 8 | Justin Simpson , in his article on the Stamford waits in The Reliquary in July 1885 , describes them crying out in the night after the performance of a tune these words by Shakespeare ; |
| 9 | I can hear them screeching around in the background . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Edwards is the best support player in the game but it 's no use having him hanging about in the wings when the experience could be given to a younger player . |
| 11 | He did n't want her cracking up in the middle of the Season . |
| 12 | I often saw him wandering about in the fields and lanes or fishing in quiet reaches of the river when he should have been in school . |
| 13 | ‘ Now , pop your trews off and give her a cuddle ; and make sure she 's out of here soon , I do n't want her mooning about in the morning . ’ |
| 14 | They could hear her moving about in the room over their heads . |
| 15 | She could hear him moving about in the sitting room . |
| 16 | He stood there blankly , not knowing what to say or do , remembering only the sound of her crying out in the darkness and how awful he had felt , alone , kneeling there on the dyke , impotent to act . |
| 17 | Now I see him coming back in the middle of the afternoon , with , I hope , a railway sandwich or two inside him , apparently not in the least put out at being employed as a busboy . |
| 18 | Like I see her standing up in the toilet and I thought your hair looks nice in n it ? |
| 19 | It was n't a warm day though it was meant to be spring , and she felt colder thinking of him standing about in the mud of a building site . |
| 20 | Mr Sheffield said the acute coronary attack suffered by Mrs McGinley would have resulted in her falling down in the path of the car . |
| 21 | A fanatical letter writer , Peter , 19 , says people are wrong to picture him playing out in the bush . |
| 22 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 23 | She returned indoors to fetch stout shoes and anorak , tied a headscarf over her bobbed brown hair to stop it flying about in the wind , and set off down the lane . |
| 24 | Oh it would have been half as small , and she used to tell us grand stories with them setting off in the morning with their a bottle of milk and their , it 's like a pi with them , to keep the fire going to keep them warm and everything . |
| 25 | From us meeting back in the February , I knew you were special . |
| 26 | ‘ And now it is gone , all gone … the communists have thrown in the sponge and left us bouncing around in the ring looking for an opponent . |
| 27 | All the more to see us floundering around in the dark . |
| 28 | At the weekend there was a bunch of us playing down in the alley-way near Julie 's house . |