Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This wo n't significantly affect the water flow , but should prevent it sticking in the future . |
| 2 | The time has come when , in cases of new import , we should decide them according to the reason of the thing . |
| 3 | Secondly , we might think it daring in the extreme , if not plain wrong , that the storyteller should represent God as being in Jacob 's grip until nearly the end of the contest . |
| 4 | I might see someone walking in the street , in an outfit I like , and think , she looks good . |
| 5 | one twice a day I I I would keep going with three month prescriptions anyway , so that 'll keep you going till the end of November No not quite the end of November , but you can then see him and say look , I 've got this this is why I 'm on these for . |
| 6 | Just follow my lead and we 'll have them standing in the aisles . ’ |
| 7 | She has to turn to Thomas J for friendship in a bitter-sweet comedy that 'll have you reaching for the hankies in no time . |
| 8 | I think we 'll have you looking like the bee 's knees before they come in . ’ |
| 9 | But no : she has hung around the DHSS while clerks forgot her like she was goods in the stockroom , and now she has a chit that says they 'll pay her lodging at the boarding house . |
| 10 | For example , if you take advantage of one of the tourist office 's all-in weekends , you might find yourself staying at the Alte Rheinmuhle . |
| 11 | And I mean one had to be grateful because she was much more concerned about whether I 'd hurt myself falling off the ladder than her wardrobe . |
| 12 | She could feel him shrinking by the second . |
| 13 | The bedroom door was pushed right back and , from where she was lying stretched out on her reclining chair , Bella could see him climbing through the window . |
| 14 | Cowley could see him sitting at the garden table , staring blankly into the distance . |
| 15 | I could see her looking at the vessel by the jetty . |
| 16 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 17 | She could see them standing on the ridge of hill that rose up behind Tara 's eastern boundaries , sending out the strong magic of the Samhailt to their creatures , so that the woods and the streams and the hillsides thrummed and quivered with the Mindsong . |
| 18 | As Kim tugged T'ai Cho around the corner he could see them coming down the corridor , not forty ch'i away . |
| 19 | Any morning you could see them tearing through the tree-tops , chasing each other up and down as they searched for the red berries that they loved . |
| 20 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 21 | As she wiped down the kitchen wall , she could see herself sitting on the half-buried block where she and her Dad used to picnic , watching the — |
| 22 | He could see it skimming over the surface of the black waters of the Liffey far below . |
| 23 | I could see it sailing over the trouble and landing on the green . |
| 24 | From the bank we could see it floating through the reflected lights like a submerged log . |
| 25 | They could see it racing across the ground ahead of them — grey around the edges , spreading into the darkness of night . |
| 26 | I mean you 'd see it going round the town quite regularly emptying the gullies . |
| 27 | Mothers are all right , I suppose , you 'd miss them fussing about the place , but ould fellows are like that hind tits of a cow – no good for use or ornament . |
| 28 | Although I could n't wait to leave school once and for all so I could join Granpa permanently , if I ever played truant for as much as an hour he would n't take me to watch West Ham on Saturday afternoon or , worse , he 'd stop me selling on the barrow in the morning . |
| 29 | I could hear them fumbling with the ladder at the window . |
| 30 | I could hear them talking to the neighbours : ‘ He 's a bit thick , our Sean . ’ |