Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That 's the easiest way of getting your firewood — cut the trees at the edge of the forest and send them rolling down to the bottom .
2 If not , place it facing out into the living space .
3 " Perhaps I should have let that precious mother of yours catch you sneaking back into the house . "
4 The thought of the pigeon sitting alone in its Bible-nest inside the big wheel , with black shadows all around and no one to talk to , set me scurrying off like the returning hunter .
5 keep you ticking over for the moment
6 I mean it going back to the days I think it was Professor Jode , it depends what you mean by class .
7 I take hold of the branch and pull it ripping out of the grass and ferns .
8 He said : ‘ You miss it coming up to the time , but I made up my mind some time ago to call it quits .
9 He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres .
10 He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres .
11 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
12 A high-speed intellectual roller-coaster ride quite likely to toss you out of the car at the turn of the next page — or at best have you clinging on by the fingernails .
13 Like I see her standing up in the toilet and I thought your hair looks nice in n it ?
14 I always see him riding about up the Steven there he 's always up there I know when I used to work for it was always Steve who used to be riding to this farm , riding to that farm , checking on this , checking on that and taking the wages round that sort of thing .
15 Perhaps you can make another batch when we see him coming down from the moor-edge , ’ she suggested to her mother .
16 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 .
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