Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing . |
| 2 | He 's not bringing me any supper . |
| 3 | Thanks for seeing me this evening er |
| 4 | Right that 's , that 's , that 's lovely Ian anyway thanks very much for seeing me this evening erm well as I say I 'll go away and prepare some figures and then I 'll , I 'll see you what , what say Wednesday next week ? |
| 5 | So you 're really clobbering them both ways , are n't you ? |
| 6 | Hick , a member of their 1983 World Cup squad when only 17 , will be opposing them this time . |
| 7 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 8 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 9 | She was bringing them some papers and some photographs in a big brown envelope . |
| 10 | The fire brigade reappeared , bringing them some council inspector , who obviously wanted to evacuate the house . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been a bit painful , but I thought it would probably go away if I ignored it , so I did n't bother seeing my own doctor before we sailed . ’ |
| 12 | I am enjoying my own attention ; a carpenter in a large mustard sweater , and a sweet-faced young lad with glasses . |
| 13 | He 's got to go to those trustees and let them know I 'm capable of handling my own money . ’ |
| 14 | Got cooking my own story about the Hillsborough Disaster . |
| 15 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 16 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 17 | Finally , after reading Practical PC I am attracted by the idea of building my own computer . |
| 18 | ‘ Only I been sufferin' 'orrible suspicions about endin' up gettin' me own throat cut . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm bidding them all farewell . |
| 20 | ‘ — weaving my own bed linen and keeping bees and putting up preserves . ’ |
| 21 | I well remember attending an ecumenical garden party , minding my own business and trying to juggle a cup of weak tea and a sinewy rock cake . |
| 22 | I was sat there minding my own business , when all of a sudden that side door opened and sunlight comes flooding in under my ass . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder . |
| 24 | One day , minding my own business as usual , I was walking down a busy main road in the afternoon when I saw a helmeted security guard standing outside a doorway . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 26 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |
| 27 | ‘ One day minding my own business in London ; the next , Damian Flint 's new secretary ! ’ |
| 28 | working away not minding my own business |
| 29 | His main purpose in all his studies became , as he says , that of ‘ informing and reforming my own Soul ’ . |
| 30 | I 'm opening my own business so I need a lot of money |