Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 2 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 3 | Listening once to him on the Bench I recalled an occasion when the aged and formidable boys ' maid who looked after our rooms had stood with arms akimbo accusing him of some peccadillo , and ended her tirade : " Mr Phillimore , do n't you stand there lying like Ananias ! " |
| 4 | I mean , here am I , chattering away to you about the outcome of the war … and you actually know , Cassie . |
| 5 | Remembered the horrible , fair , insinuating Frome sidling up to her at the counter and suddenly , unexpectedly , braying out for the whole shop to hear in exaggerated cockney : ‘ Better not fatten him up too much , love , or he 'll be too heavy to baby-snatch . ’ |
| 6 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 7 | Ooh right , okay , well there 'll be another one going out to you for the , I think the Saturday night er hotel |
| 8 | Results have not gone in his favour in the short-term , but I believe the club will have a job holding on to him in the future . |
| 9 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 10 | He was clever at finding bargains , reporting back to her about the special offers , the cheaper lines . |
| 11 | So could I just in conclusion say please fill in your short questionnaire thank you for your attendance and I can assure you as Chairman of the trust what you said and the question 's you 've raised this evening will be looked at in great detail and we will be reporting back to you in the near future about the proposals that we wish to make . |
| 12 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |
| 13 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 14 | I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos . |
| 15 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 16 | You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one . |
| 17 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 18 | As a weak sun died and the shadows closed in around us , we saw the high pointed gables and turreted walls of the fortified manor house beckoning darkly to us over the treetops . |