Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 2 | Their recent blockbusting Belfast 1991 production at the Group Theatre left everyone clamouring for more . |
| 3 | ‘ What do you think of me appearing like that in front of the men ? ’ she asked in her slow , earnest , Germanic accent , gazing at Jane with steady blue eyes . |
| 4 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 5 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 6 | That 's what everyone applying for that job will pitch . |
| 7 | There 's nothing revealing about that . |
| 8 | My usual state of mind is ‘ what am I dying of this week . ’ |
| 9 | Why am I applying for this particular job ? |
| 10 | Am I looking at this file at all anxiously ? |
| 11 | No way am I living in another flat , no chance . |
| 12 | Fig. 3.1 shows a picture of one spiral galaxy that is similar to what we think ours must look like to someone living in another galaxy . |
| 13 | If it really is the case that all I am doing when I have beliefs about the world is to have dispositions to behave , then it ought to make sense for me to think of my believing in those terms . |
| 14 | These are for the climbers , and when you feel puny as a walker you can sidle over to someone looking through this rail and look them straight in the eye , secure in the knowledge that nothing in hill-walking requires you to dress in such a gruesome fashion . |
| 15 | Oh well I going across those country roads |
| 16 | Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ? |
| 17 | ‘ No , Mother , in no way am I going to this Mrs Boston 's . ’ |
| 18 | Cos I had an awful experience about ooh , four years ago , I had this old Moggy Morris Minor coming along very slowly north of Hull it was and this chap and his about finished work you know , so I going past this cri , there 's a cricket match going on and he was looking like , I could see and his girlfriend ! |
| 19 | Now , am I waiting for these today or ? |
| 20 | Not often you get someone braking like that on Main Street . |
| 21 | I recall someone complaining about those little cartoon drawings of you lot , I would just like to say that I think they are very comical and nowadays virtually every computer magazine has them ( except for crappy ones like Amstrad Action ! ) . |
| 22 | This was the gaze of someone staring past any human being whatever , at some imaginary blazing sun beyond . |
| 23 | I went to see him at Covent Garden and came away thinking ‘ What am I doing with this miserable life ? ’ |
| 24 | Honestly , though , who out there has n't at several junctions been reduced by sleeplessness , exhaustion and sheer frustration into staring over the heads of your babies at the man who fathered them , and thinking what in hell 's name am I doing with this person ? |
| 25 | I was thinking , what am I doing in this medical school , having a shit time ? ’ , and I was with my first and last girlfriend . |
| 26 | ‘ What was I saying before that ? ’ she said . |
| 27 | I did it so quickly , all the rest , I thought with The Times crossword , I 'm , I whooping through this like mad . |
| 28 | Now we see ourselves entering into this market not immediately but in the not too distant future . |
| 29 | It sounds sort of sing-song — not like someone talking at all , more like a tune . |
| 30 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |