Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do I hope will happen ? " and " Why am I doing it this way ? " |
| 2 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 3 | I was angry with , well , with what I thought about you keeping it all secret from me , I was maybe going to take something , I thought of threatening you . |
| 4 | I watched you giving it all to the cats . ’ |
| 5 | You doing it all green are you ? |
| 6 | Why are n't you doing it that way then ? |
| 7 | Or are you taking it all a little too personally ? |
| 8 | There is so much I want to say , I feel I ca n't spare one minute from you when I might be with you telling it all to you . |
| 9 | And nine times out of ten people in that situation , when they 're actually creating their article or their programme or anything else , will take that material , use their own style , wrap it up , and as it were throw it out , and if you 're pro-active in that sense , you stand a very very much better chance of them getting it right . |
| 10 | We thinking well why are we doing it this way ? |
| 11 | Me doing it that hat |
| 12 | archaeologists are still there doing it all you know ? |
| 13 | I mean most of them are only there cos there finding it hard with the mortgage . |
| 14 | She watched him seeing it all , feeling it all , assimilating his surroundings with no fidget or fluster . |
| 15 | I would have thought you 'd have spared her reliving it all . ’ |
| 16 | His mother had caught him doing it one day and had been extremely angry with him . |
| 17 | great And of course her doing it all with her usual |
| 18 | I divorced my ex-husband five years ago , after years of him making it obvious that I was acting as a ‘ brake ’ on his life . |
| 19 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 20 | Her heart began to thud erratically , and she felt as if a great weight was pressing down on her making it difficult to breathe . |
| 21 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 22 | Protests were also heard from the leaderships in the Baltic republics , Georgia and Armenia , all of them making it clear that they would not co-operate with the army in organizing joint patrols , while the Moldavian Supreme Soviet on Jan. 31 passed a resolution saying that the presidential decree had no legal force on its territory . |
| 23 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 24 | She was scarlet with confusion , the breathtaking desire mounting between them making it difficult to cling to her train of thought . |
| 25 | And that gave me a terrible feeling , I just did n't know what to , whether to you know , you was sad and yet you felt wild at them putting it that way . |
| 26 | Anyone getting it wrong drops out of the game . |
| 27 | Gazing straight ahead , only half-aware of a world outside the claustrophobic comfort of the car , of Massingham 's hands stroking the wheel , the almost soundless changing of the gears , the pattern of traffic lights , he deliberately let his mind slip free of the present and of all the conjecture about what lay ahead , and remembered , by an exercise of mental recall , as if something important depended on his getting it right , every moment of that last meeting with the dead man . |
| 28 | Arthur Sando from Swindon lent a hand with the rescue , then helped to flag down traffic to prevent it making it worse . |
| 29 | I suppose you 're frightened of me messing it all up for you , with my dirty boots and all that … . ’ |
| 30 | How many pennies per gram , I would prefer that too , so just sort of choose one way and stick to it , I always do it that way , and then you 're not confusing yourself doing it different ways . |