Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It worries the lawyers , and the insurance company were always fussing about keeping it in a private house . |
| 2 | Q When I am looking at the ingredients in a hair product what should I be looking for to identify it as a quality product ? |
| 3 | Some two hours later the whole party sat , exhausted and silent , in deckchairs on the terrace of Sven Hjerson 's hotel , sipping half-heartedly at cups of abominable tea and looking without seeing anything at the wide sweep of the Bay of Naples spread out far below them . |
| 4 | At about 0345 it was decided to try to position Locative in a better position for helicopter winching by towing her into the wind . |
| 5 | I spoke to myself and I did n't listen : meaningless words on deaf ears , although they were true , and whoever I was meant them , and whoever I was speaking to knew them for the truth . |
| 6 | ‘ We thank the Government for relaxing these but this is rather like thanking somebody for refraining from hitting you on the head with a heavy stick , ’ said Brendan Burns , the federation 's Scottish-based UK vice-chairman . |
| 7 | Decision makers should satisfy themselves that current practice is itself worth having before using it as a comparison for a new treatment . |
| 8 | Mm well thanks for your thoughts Peter echoing what everybody else has said and er thanks for coming on telling us about the new trees as well . |
| 9 | This was partly due to ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , remixed by Stock , Aitken and Waterman and her third single on the PWL label , succeeding in breaking her in the all-important American market when it climbed to number three in the US charts . |
| 10 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 11 | As the BBC 's funding was ‘ assured ’ , it could pursue quality in programming without concerning itself with the needs of the public for , say , popular entertainment . |
| 12 | I know I should be thinking about taking her to a mother-and-toddler group so she can meet people and make friends , but something keeps putting me off . |
| 13 | I was also excited at the prospect of earning some reward , and I could n't sleep that night for thinking about visiting her in the morning . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , exactly — ’ she hrumphed some more — ‘ I said she was still going to be in Maidstone for a few days though we were thinking of moving her to a private hospital . |
| 16 | ‘ I was thinking of putting her to a very nice stallion I 've seen in the district , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 18 | You may be thinking of treating yourself to a holiday erm or something of that kind . |
| 19 | As a matter of fact , I 'm thinking of offering her to The Lancet . |
| 20 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 21 | Was he planning on putting her on a plane back to England ? |
| 22 | If you are a mother-to-be or planning on becoming one in the near future join Harpers & Queen On Location on Wednesday 11 April for our Maternity Workshops at Harrods , Knightsbridge , SW1 . |
| 23 | I know I want to know , but I 'm gon na watch it in a bit ! |
| 24 | Let's close shall we with a song of , of commitment really , it 's number four hundred in the er songs of fellowship and were gon na sing it to the first tune , oh call for us I believe , but let's look at it again . |
| 25 | I 'm gon na lay it on the |
| 26 | I 'm gon na lay it on the board |
| 27 | I 'm gon na paint him in a bright colour |
| 28 | I 'm gon na paint him in a really bright colour and then put the |
| 29 | he growls at Reggie when he comes up to say ta ta in the morning , if Reggie puts his arm under him , and looks as if he 's gon na move him off the bed he , he 'll , he 'll growl |
| 30 | We were gon na hold him on the floor so we were . |