Example sentences of "i [vb base] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean looking at the game you just could n't believe United would only get a point out of it erm when you went in at half time only one nil up , you so dominated the game I do n't think Charlton had a chance did they ? |
| 2 | There 's erm And I mean looking after the parish hall as well , why should we bother with that ? |
| 3 | I mean starting from the way children go to school in the morning — they expect their parents to take them quite often , and to contribute to pollution . |
| 4 | Half awake , I lay listening to the silence . |
| 5 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 6 | I sit shivering in the armchair in this first-floor flat in Deptford , and I feel I 'm still trapped in a cupboard , listening for strange noises , till I realize they are the last images of the dream , slipping away like ghost bodies melting on the floor . |
| 7 | I hate looking at the meat , I hate touching it … ’ |
| 8 | I hate going to the cinema . |
| 9 | But I hate doing I hate creepy crawlies , I hate spiders and I hate going in the loft . |
| 10 | ‘ I stop thinking about the problem . |
| 11 | I hope coming off the field quickly has prevented it being too serious . ’ |
| 12 | I await hearing from the bank as to its requirements . |
| 13 | I enjoy living in the countryside and like nothing more than a stroll through the villages . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , then , ’ he went on , ‘ much as I enjoy looking at the top of your head , I did ask a question . |
| 15 | I enjoy working for the agency . |
| 16 | ‘ My husband and I enjoy going to the theatre , Agatha Christie novels , outdoor walks and picnics , and eating in restaurants . |
| 17 | For one mad moment I consider diving to the floor . |
| 18 | I remember there was a period when no-one was speaking to anyone and I recall going to the island of Mustique and being there a few weeks just before the final split . |
| 19 | I recall leading for the Opposition in the early 1970s on the Fair Trading Act 1973 . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps that 's why I like living in the city . |
| 21 | ‘ I live on Eighth Street and I like walking in the rain . ’ |
| 22 | I like going to the cinema actually . |
| 23 | I like going to the lavatory . ’ |
| 24 | I like shaving in the wardrobe I find it |
| 25 | I like shaving in the shower . |
| 26 | Madame always had a little stage set up there at the end , and I remember thinking at the time , well , seven nights in a week and seven different acts , it 's one way of dealing with the situation . |
| 27 | I remember thinking at the time that someone had got their priorities wrong . |
| 28 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 29 | And I remember staying by the river and going netting for collect tadpoles and that |
| 30 | I remember looking at the back of Don 's anorak and seeing Made in England and thinking , I wish I was back there . ’ |