Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 2 | It simply refers to all the things the retailer does to look after the customers — the things that make them enjoy visiting that shop or store . |
| 3 | you ca n't go , you know I mean lugging that around , I this is what put 's me off London this really |
| 4 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 5 | Er can the Minister in fact , I mean following that question , can the Minister say in fact how many teachers are teaching religious education in private schools are not in fact quali qualified for the subject at the moment . |
| 6 | I have n't actually got a , a poem for this , I was saying to you that I would use this , I intend using this as a writing exercise , because the , the colour of her mouth and the colour of the piece of boot in the background , just stands out to me , it says , its about to me hidden desire of some sort , either the artist 's or hers or mine I do n't know |
| 7 | ‘ I intend leaving this the first moment I can for Sydney hence to Hobart Town to see you , although it will verily interfere with my pursuits . |
| 8 | I 'll want to add some more PCs to the contract and renegotiate terms accordingly , and I intend doing this in March . |
| 9 | I hate cooking more than housework . |
| 10 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 11 | All correspondence to ( God , I hate doing this every frigging week ) AITS-N ! |
| 12 | Sometimes , when I have to make precious substances such as toenail cheese or belly-button fluff , I have to go without a shower or bath for days and days ; I hate doing this because I soon feel dirty and itchy , and the only bright thing about such abstinence is how good it feels to have a shower at the end of it . |
| 13 | Naturally I do n't want to risk a recurrence of the trouble , but equally , I hate missing any Ireland match and I 'll be giving it a full blast in the final training session to make sure I 'm 100 per cent . |
| 14 | Of course I hate cleaning all this up , but he means well . |
| 15 | And then , ‘ God , how I hate talking this way . ’ |
| 16 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |
| 17 | I tried telling some of the teachers that . |
| 18 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 19 | In anticipation that the same problem might recur this summer I tried sowing some sweet peas with the runner beans . |
| 20 | I tried joining another group , this time for compulsive eaters . |
| 21 | And and I 'm all in favour as I say getting more through the letter box , it 's easier for us and it But I I think I mean I 'm quite happy to leave this now and just carry on with the bridal But we have to make this pay itself |
| 22 | You might ask yourselves why I bother writing this , but I get kind of worried when I hear such news . |
| 23 | I stopped seeing those flats years ago . |
| 24 | Erm , I stopped doing that but |
| 25 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 26 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 27 | ‘ Apparently after Naylor had spent hours checking around my old haunts without success , he finally got lucky when someone recalled having many times seen my car parked outside this block of flats . |
| 28 | ‘ You know it 's only when I 've had a drink I stop hearing those damned machines . ’ |
| 29 | Oh go on let me I like doing that . |
| 30 | I hated sketching those council houses at the foot of Stirling Castle but who knows , in another hundred odd years those houses could be as romantic as the tenements of Scotland Street in Glasgow or the crofthouses in Tiree . |