Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised Madeleine last night I 'd go with them to see Dunbar playing polo . |
| 2 | Among them limped women carrying everything they had left , stuffed inside plastic buckets and bags balanced on their heads . |
| 3 | So there he was , all frozen in the hot sun , I began to realise things were really serious when I see them machine guns itching to smoke in the fuzz hand . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't yow ever let me catch yow using that terrible stuff agen ! ’ he bawled . |
| 5 | During a visit to Brigade Headquarters I overheard Officers discussing the situation in our area . |
| 6 | I overheard Montague talking with a staff officer . |
| 7 | Home again , I wasted hours trying to make sense of things , and did so eventually . |
| 8 | Is that the telephone 's fault d' ya think or is that fault I mean salesman coming in as well . |
| 9 | Yeah well I mean boss ringing up , chasing after you . |
| 10 | And of course it mainly works the other way , does n't it — I mean Hilda hating Viola . ’ |
| 11 | When I arrived back outside my room , I met Jane coming along the corridor from the other direction , clutching little Darren in her arms . |
| 12 | I met Gilles holding court with some fresh tourists in a café . |
| 13 | What made it worse was I heard people saying what a very good side Spartak were . |
| 14 | I told you I got coupons coming out of my ears . |
| 15 | And I got Tony coming to do these now . |
| 16 | I hate dishes sitting done , oh fuck I |
| 17 | And I hate dishes sitting Raymond I really do |
| 18 | I hate role playing ! |
| 19 | Grief , I hate people seeing me like this , she thought . |
| 20 | When it is pointed at the receiver and pressed staff hear a bleep warning them someone needs help getting in . |
| 21 | Then , finally , edging nervously round a bluff of rock , I found Owen setting up his camera on a small , gently shelving piece of grass level with the foot of the colony . |
| 22 | I found artefacts dating back a century and felt that it was important not just to preserve them , but to use them in the education of today 's children . ’ |
| 23 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 24 | When I reached the gate , I found Estella waiting for me . |
| 25 | This troubled me so much that when , in the morning , I found Curtis running the polisher over the hall floor , I asked him , ‘ Did you hear that in the night , Curtis ? |
| 26 | I found Springsteen sitting on the draining-board gazing out of the kitchen window , which I have to open for him so he can come and go as he likes . |
| 27 | I found Springsteen lying in the middle of my bed . |
| 28 | When his militiamen had stormed onto the Jiyeh coast road and killed the remaining Phalangist defenders there in 1985 , I found Walid leaning back in an old wooden chair in one of his palace reception rooms , swigging from a bottle of frozen Czech lager and lamenting the moral improprieties of war . |
| 29 | After trudging disconsolately round a few bars , I went back to our cheap hostel , where to my relief I found Dana snoring in the double bed we were to share . |
| 30 | When I came on deck to take my watch I found Viking swaying gently over a smooth swell , the cloud-wreathed Torridon mountains to port , and South Rona lighthouse fine on the starboard bow . |