Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oh I did n't like them I was , I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like |
| 32 | At the Mas Rose she hoped every day to see them riding down the white stony hillside track . |
| 33 | , but then , when you come to the lunatic fringe then supervisor 's will cut an awful lot of corners to prevent them busting up the office or punching somebody in the nose , a real , I do n't mean people who are just stroppy , I mean the real lunatic . |
| 34 | ‘ Are we goin' out the night or not ? ’ |
| 35 | are we going out the front door ? |
| 36 | How you gon na get to the , are we going out the |
| 37 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 38 | I still like those wedding ones , with them coming out the church flying |
| 39 | This list has , believe it or not , really got me in the mood for venturing back to see United — tommorrow should see me travelling up the M1 if I can get the transport arranged — and hopefully I 'll be seeing quite a few games throughout the season . |
| 40 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 41 | ‘ They 're aw' the same , ’ Isa lifted her knitting out the carrier together with a badly printed pattern clipped from a copy of The People 's Friend that she had found on the train to Wemyss Bay . |
| 42 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
| 43 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 44 | The sight of him hanging on the Cross — are we really supposed to worship that , defeat and death ? |
| 45 | She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did . |
| 46 | You could hear him shouting down the telephone halfway down the road . |
| 47 | I 'm waiting on him picking up the machine . |
| 48 | She could imagine him picking out the blooms , thinking of her , his large , flamboyant writing looping across the card … |
| 49 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
| 50 | I heard him pumping up the pressure and singing a folk song which began , ‘ We do n't smoke pot in Norwich City ’ . |
| 51 | This almost welcoming message kept her going down the raccordo to Siena . |
| 52 | His career was not without its less attractive moments , and it is sad that many fans will remember the famous picture in the 1981 Wisden of him kicking down the stumps after having an appeal refused in New Zealand almost as readily as they will recall his wonderful bowling ; yet even in dissent he was physically graceful , and the picture is positively balletic . |
| 53 | The only recorded royal tram ride in the first hundred years of Blackpool tramways occurred on 21 October 1937 , when HRH The Duke of Kent ( the present Duke 's father ) visited Blackpool to open Victoria Hospital , the lifeboat house and Princess Way , culminating in him switching on the Illuminations . |
| 54 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 55 | I did n't expect to see her coming out the side door like that . ’ |
| 56 | It 's the only real explanation Tolby had for him starting up the divorce proceedings again . |
| 57 | His mother was a little surprised to see him coming up the garden path crying his eyes out just half an hour later . |
| 58 | Harlequins ' prompt 30-day suspension of the Wallaby World Cup forward , which forestalled any further action by the powers-that-be , did lead to him sitting out the loss to Northampton in the league ( although few of Quins ' other internationals played anyway ) . |
| 59 | He paused ; she could hear him shaking out the page . |
| 60 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |