Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] i [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |
| 2 | There was a moment 's silence , perhaps to leave me guessing . |
| 3 | ( Eg I got 2 pounds of a cop ticket for wimbledon — meaning I can see a match for 5.50 ) It only takes me going to 5 matches like this and I 've got good value for my initial investment . |
| 4 | And I therefore had some control — just enough to keep me going — over myself . |
| 5 | There 's enough to keep me going for the week there is n't there ? |
| 6 | ‘ You 've asked enough to keep me talking for a month . |
| 7 | Casey brings a double-handed chop down on the back of my neck , just off target but enough to send me reeling in a flood of numb red nausea . |
| 8 | If only to stop me dashing round to the newsagent every day to ask if it is in yet around the time due , I shall have to take out an MKM subscription and devote more of my energies to learning how . |
| 9 | It 's silly things like that which get in the way of the actual show , so for the next series , I suggested a couch , low enough for me to put my arm over the back of it , but high enough to stop me sliding off on to the floor . |
| 10 | I knotted my fingers together to stop me grabbing him round the throat . |
| 11 | ‘ Fox , although allowing me complete control over the physical side of making the picture , were strong enough to prevent me changing the script , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not stopped me referring patients , ’ said one doctor , ‘ but I do think about where I send them . ’ |
| 13 | You 'll not ketch me complaining about my lot |
| 14 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 15 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 16 | ‘ There are some suggestions I made for changes but this would not prevent me signing it . |
| 17 | However , from the moment he entered the Mess he was quite an outstanding character — and I hope he will not mind me mentioning it — against a rich harvest of exceptional characters at that time . |
| 18 | I hope you will not mind me having circulated this letter to Wales four MEPs , since I am sure they will be concerned to hear of these difficulties . |
| 19 | yeah , just like erm , say a Friday or Saturday night when I take the car to go home , Sarah 's worked it out that by the time she walks upstairs and into her bedroom , she normally sees me going down Upping Road , but she does n't see me , next days it 's oh where did you go ? or what happened ? , |
| 20 | And the fact that I will be playing under him as captain on an England tour for the first time will not stop me having dinner and drinking with him most nights . |
| 21 | I did not know where I was , but that did not stop me saying , ‘ I 'm here ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I would advise you most sincerely not to keep me waiting . ’ |
| 23 | Ah di ah but , did you not hear me shouting at them ? |
| 24 | I thought that was ever so nice of Edna not to mind me coming . |
| 25 | Have you just recorded me talking a load of bullshit ? |
| 26 | The thing that 's suggested just to sort of er bring that round to you to you know rather than just have me speaking , is to suggest that er if I start a sentence er perhaps you know people could join in with the finish of that sentence , you know . |
| 27 | Can you just imagine me advertising that today . |
| 28 | Thunder always got me buzzing . |
| 29 | ‘ But he 's always hated me having properties , independently . ’ |
| 30 | ( Not that you 'd ever catch me doing any of it with that treacherous corporate stooge again . |