Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refusing to rise to the bait , she visualised and counted ten elephants , a hangover habit from her childhood , then , her voice tightly controlled , asked , ‘ Would you please explain why you insisted on bringing me here instead of taking me to the Trevi ? ’ |
| 2 | I remember Debbie bringing me home once from Bingo and he 's coming up as she 's coming up , she 's almost there too her house , and he would n't budge , he would n't back , he would n't reverse at all . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Swinton has so much already , ’ Alexandra said , her voice almost steady , ‘ that he asked if you might have the basket for bringing me out here on Christmas night . ’ |
| 4 | It is in weighing these up one against another — in balancing them and seeing them altogether cumulatively — that these criteria may become effective . |
| 5 | Although you see them on film , it 's not the same as seeing them actually there . |
| 6 | Since I had taken her from her people , I felt in some degree responsible for seeing them together again . |
| 7 | Off with the nightie , on with those jeans ( OK , do n't bother fastening them just yet ) , pop your baby in the brand-new car seat , and zoom off home with proud daddy . |
| 8 | Okay it 's erm I du n no , I du n no how they 'll feel about you phoning them up though to be honest with you . |
| 9 | I go to college now I 'm doing my G C S Es and I 'm enjoying them very much and I 'm glad I went onto that course first . |
| 10 | I kept pushing needle or scissors into his hands then demanding them back peremptorily , and it caused a certain amount of panic . |
| 11 | Pissing me off now you . |
| 12 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 13 | If we need people with financial experience and managerial experience , then appoint them to the local to the Police Committee , given them a job to do , they 're the ones that are should advise the Chief Constable and the Police Committee as to whether they 're spending the right of money on computers and are using it properly , not whether they 're using them operationally correctly . |
| 14 | And holders are also using them more frequently — the number of transactions and the amount spent increased by 90 per cent in 1991 . |
| 15 | Try using them more often and you will get more enjoyment out of life and be healthier too . |
| 16 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 17 | It would seem sensible , therefore , to try and avoid using them as far as possible . |
| 18 | But using them in exactly the way suggested will increase your skills . |
| 19 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 20 | Although many of them have been answered already in an expanded form elsewhere in the book , we are including them again here in a more concise form for easy reference . |
| 21 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 22 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |
| 23 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 24 | Such foods do not deserve the bad reputation they have gained over the years ; eating them more often might well serve to curb the appetite for fatty foods or confectionery . |
| 25 | She lay in bed , curled up like a ball , grasping her twin moons , and erotically easing them apart so that the cleft widened to expose her tight little bumhole . |
| 26 | There 's a , as I 'm speeding them round here , oh one nine , nine , seven , that 's Charlie 's size as well |
| 27 | ‘ You two are cheering me up too much and I ca n't stand the excitement . ’ |
| 28 | Even though he was old enough to be my father and now walking like an old , old man , every feminine instinct I possessed was reminding me most pleasantly that he was neither my father nor an old , old man . |
| 29 | ‘ Weaving ’ is thus taken in a broad sense here , and the Weaving Mother is a symbol for the process of choosing the raw material , making the threads , and binding them fast together . |
| 30 | In any event , it seems clear that the follow-on loan is generally bad for consumers , as it restricts their potential credit choice by binding them even more firmly into one type of weekly-collection credit . |