Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] and [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So how 's about moving over and letting me get on with it , eh ? |
| 2 | When I meet people I like , instead of saying more and showing I like them and asking questions , I sort of clam up , as if I do n't expect them to like me , or as if I 'm not interesting enough for them . |
| 3 | I says on a night-time , I said , you know , she ca n't leave her home now , I said , she ca n't manage to put coal on fire , and she ca n't manage to get up up to eat and drink and that , I said , I do n't mind dropping off and taking me turn on the night-time but I mean , but it 's hard , it 's hard with me with kids every night . |
| 4 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 5 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |
| 6 | The most consistently bearish — well he is a Brit — Stephen Smith of PaineWebber , says that until recently , saying you did n't like IBM was ‘ like standing up and saying I do n't like apple pie . ’ |
| 7 | This time in the hotels I particularly noticed how many people of different tongues were also staying there — all babbling away and making me wonder who they were and where they had come from . |
| 8 | says there 's a good chance they 'll want to finish loading today and asks me to find out who wants overtime . |
| 9 | She accused her husband of fucking around and retained me to prove it . |
| 10 | It felt like my stomach had decided to take a sabbatical ; all that food was just sitting there , unprocessed , locked in , slopping around and making me feel horrible . |