Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | K. R. You might be in Park Lane and a fellow 's walking towards you with a suitcase . |
| 2 | Teal saw torch beams bobbing towards him from a side corridor and grabbed Bernice 's arm . |
| 3 | The Sussex campus was shrinking below me into a collection of children 's play houses , then models , then crumbs , then fly droppings . |
| 4 | Climbing up him like a vine . ’ |
| 5 | Crowding round him for a share are , from left to right , Rousseau , Poupee and Héra ( her tiny son Hector just visible on her belly ) . |
| 6 | He started off carrying something like a seventy- to eighty-pound pack of tinned foods and dried foods , his only companion a lurcher dog walking beside him on a length of clothesline . |
| 7 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 8 | Typical of the kind of pain Dustin would put himself through , in order to get ‘ inside ’ a character , was the way in which he developed Ratso 's limp by placing stones in one shoe and then walking on them for a day . |
| 9 | For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ? |
| 10 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 11 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 12 | Walkers would find themselves diving out of the way on paths , escaping from runaway mountain bikes careering towards them on a mission to deposit their riders in a ditch . |
| 13 | Have you found the art world to be completely accepting of you as a woman ? |
| 14 | Stanley was accused by natives of practising evil magic because he was observed writing about them in a book . |
| 15 | They was looking for it on a list . |
| 16 | Well you 'll be looking for it in a bit wo n't you ? |
| 17 | Against that , though , there is a ‘ vast contemporary repertoire — the guitar has come into its own in popularity in this period , and people are now writing for it with a vengeance . |
| 18 | Theda stood looking after them for a moment , aware of her own burning curiosity . |
| 19 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 20 | Was n't he supposed to be looking after her in a sanatorium ? ’ |
| 21 | er there 's a new er thing started with Friends Provident by er following first call , I 'm now responsible for looking after you as a policy holder , that 's the first point |
| 22 | It 's worn well ; David must be looking after it with a coat of stop-rot now and then . ’ |
| 23 | There was this old lady comes towards me ; she was fussing about her luggage , that a porter was pushing behind her on a trolley . |
| 24 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 26 | Erm try and where possible to use the individual communication with them as opposed to erm communicating to them as a member of a group preferably in a relaxed environment er rather than a sort of erm including any decision making pass on as much credit for that decision as possible |
| 27 | It 's bad enough that Timothy 's mooning over her like a schoolboy , wet behind the ears . |
| 28 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 29 | In fact , even without knowing it , he may be looking to her as a vehicle by which he might rediscover his lost self , which did n't have the chance to blossom earlier . |
| 30 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |