Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 2 | That was a nice picture — Marie liked it I think , cos she did n't mind me sticking it on the wall . |
| 3 | Some story about a raid , that was it , them finding ST with a stainless steel jig screwed to his pate , them sticking him in a sack , jig and all . |
| 4 | Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack . |
| 5 | No-one seeing her on the move , rushing headlong through drear fuming tunnels , would really note the missing arms and absent tail , the sealed face , the scarlet sash . |
| 6 | I send it to the individual 's home and I include a personal note from me thanking him for his achievement . |
| 7 | For that , on Locke 's understanding of how visual sensations are related to impressions on the retina , is the same in the two cases of my seeing the figure as a drawing of a duck and my seeing it as a drawing of a rabbit . |
| 8 | It was the child that had to have first consideration , and what had I got to offer it that justified my bringing it into the world ? |
| 9 | If it is n't then you 've got ta make a choice of whether you want to be private or whether you want to run the risk of someone using it as cover . |
| 10 | ‘ Are n't I keeping you from something ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Forgive my correcting you in your own department , Sister , but it is . |
| 12 | ‘ So in about ten months we 'd have him out and around , or else what am I paying you for ? ’ |
| 13 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 14 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 15 | Alice , am I boring you with all this ? ’ |
| 16 | He looked at Bernard , frowned , then glanced round sharply when he heard someone calling him from the end of the counter . |
| 17 | One clearly libidinous writer gives thanks for my providing him with a far from platitudinous substitute for an invitation to come up and look at etchings . |
| 18 | You never knew these days when a casual remark was going to provide the justification for someone stalking you with an automatic rifle . |
| 19 | You know , like I say , I try to do some things different , and then that do n't work sometimes cos I think well why am I doing 'em like that . |
| 20 | Right well what was I doing it for ? |
| 21 | The only danger to me is someone hearing us in here , getting alarmed , calling the police , maybe . |
| 22 | This will vary greatly between someone reading a novel on a train and someone reading it as part of the study for a PhD thesis . |
| 23 | ‘ I know that , ’ said Wendy Witherington placidly , ‘ but you 're my brother and that 's the same as my knowing her on her knowing me . ’ |
| 24 | I had expected that one or two of the fry might tentatively explore this new hiding place ; what in fact happened was that the ENTIRE brood crammed themselves into it within a minute of my putting it in the tank . |
| 25 | It 's a good idea of yours putting me on the floor Rocket . |
| 26 | Now he remembered someone telling him about this place . |
| 27 | Usually it was someone congratulating us on having won a free dancing lesson or test drive ; but there were quite a few grumpy wrong numbers , which made us feel at home . |
| 28 | Readers will remember my telling them of British Coal 's current advertising campaign aimed at convincing the power generators to place any future contracts with it . |
| 29 | It led to a dialogue with Montefiore , with my telling him about my friend who has had AIDS now for six years and who , thanks to AZT , is still alive . |
| 30 | I 've had someone trailing you since that meeting at the meat warehouse . |