Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 2 | Then Izzie was calling him from behind the pageant . |
| 3 | But even as he prayed he could hear the voice of William 's grandad berating him from under the lid of the closed coffin . |
| 4 | my Lord I do n't think that 's different , erm it 's not the restriction , one saying that the res the , the , it 's not restricting competition it 's simply an entry condition , but it does n't have the effect of taking anybody outside of the market who should be there |
| 5 | ‘ Ah , Flittern , ’ said Malengin , bestirring himself from beside the cooking range . |
| 6 | I 've been watching you from over the wall . |
| 7 | He was watching the Headmistress with an exceedingly wary eye and he kept edging farther and farther away from her with little shuffles of his feet , rather as a rat might edge away from a terrier that is watching it from across the room . |
| 8 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 9 | I thought about leaving a few of Simon 's visiting cards around , or suggesting they all get together and build a glider in the loft , but then I saw the frosty-eyed Matron in a blue uniform and matching hair rinse clocking me from behind the desk . |
| 10 | Hitting somebody on on the head with a brick . |
| 11 | Very gently the two women drew the light quilt away , sliding it from under the arm of the sleeper , drawing it down at both sides , peeling it off and over the end of the bed . |
| 12 | At least the German infantry wo n't be attacking us from across the field in front of our positions , as long as this barrage keeps up . |