Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was too busy holding on to the edge of my chair and waiting for him to rise twenty feet in the air . |
| 2 | I 'm waiting for you to make those things in your erm |
| 3 | However , Howe was turning into an alcoholic owing to his frequenting many alehouses around Edinburgh and this , coupled with his deafness , meant he was preyed upon by unscrupulous acquaintances so that when he died in 1836 at Newhaven , near Edinburgh , he was almost a pauper . |
| 4 | Several hours later after flying over what seemed endless tracts of grey-green Siberian tundra we descended over the great expanse of the Lena River . |
| 5 | They were they were asking for them to make more slates for for less money and they were n't prepared to sit down and really talk it through with the men they just treated you know they just had this awful attitude |
| 6 | Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago . |
| 7 | Throughout the 1960s and 1970s , when water engineers were falling over themselves to find new pieces of countryside to flood for reservoirs that would meet rising water demand , their water mains were leaking more and more water . |
| 8 | The generals are falling over themselves to get French divisions sent up as reserves . |
| 9 | Now they are appealing for anyone to hold fund-raising events to boost the coffers . |
| 10 | Now they are appealing for anyone to hold fund-raising events to boost the coffers . |
| 11 | In the novels I am thinking of he attributes certain ideas to certain characters and utters them in the prevailing manner of the novel , while also submitting them to question within it . |
| 12 | To do that the changing needs of customers has to be met with regard to materials , marketing and services by anticipating their future needs and working with them to achieve these objectives . |
| 13 | yeah he 's talked to me actually as well about dealing with people who from the inside have dealt working with him doing royal visits because obviously that 's quite useful a lesson for them to get over to people |