Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these considerable services he received nothing , his enemies using the time he was away to poison Francesco I Sforza against him , not least because they were jealous of the work on the chapel . |
| 2 | With the noise of the water splashing round her head and drumming into the bath , Melissa found herself reliving the time she had spent with Fernand in that dark , echoing cavern . |
| 3 | That is , that it is a considerable asset to have all the aspects of your novel reflecting the time you have chosen to set it in . |
| 4 | Julie smiled , remembering the times she and her friends had hidden in the old shed during hilarious games of hide and seek and sardines . |
| 5 | Gaily looked back over his shoulder at the rosy-bricked manor house , for he was too near to remembering the time he had wished his mother dead . |
| 6 | ‘ Sounds like the Cornishman coming , ’ he thought dreamily to himself , remembering the time he had watched the express thunder through Berkeley Road station . |
| 7 | In future farmers should be encouraged to consider training every time they say to themselves , ‘ I wish I knew more about this ’ or ‘ I wish I could do this better ’ . |
| 8 | On the other hand , do n't make a habit of shouting every time you do something : this will cause the panel to switch off , and thereby perhaps miss an actual score . |
| 9 | Ease of access to the garden , especially if you grow your own herbs , vegetables and fruit , is also important , as is minimising the time you spend answering the front and back doors . |
| 10 | He has to keep these kids in the team because there 's nothing better to replace them — yet even five years ago Jamie Redknapp and Don Hutchison would have been back in the reserves , getting the time they need . |
| 11 | Back to the other chair , and so on — moving every time you pause for thought . |
| 12 | You keep complaining every time you get hiccups , you say oh I do n't like them . |
| 13 | Unlike a Guardian predecessor , Cardus , he was not intensely musical , perhaps not finding the time he might have liked . |
| 14 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 15 | Yeah I mean some very nice girls do n't take that wrong I mean , they n they do n't hit you on the head and start fighting every time you talk to them . |
| 16 | This one held a baby in her arms , and kept curtsying every time she finished a sentence . |
| 17 | It ca n't , thought Robert , be good for the personality to have a load of middle-aged men prostrating themselves in front of you and sobbing every time you open your mouth . |
| 18 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |
| 19 | Peter even had an audience , 21,000 watching and screaming every time he came with the ball from behind , their knuckles going white as they gripped their seats at Stamford Bridge . |
| 20 | Unless he was driving across France , Preston thought , and ringing every time he stopped for a break , to make sure she was still there . |
| 21 | It may then resort to thieving , or whining every time you eat , because it is disturbed with the uncertainty of its own feeding arrangements . |
| 22 | And the agents are likely to rebel against time-wasting vetting every time they go to work . |
| 23 | On the lighter side actually , my husband , and my sister-in- law and brother-in-law used to smoke , and I got very cute to this , because I sa , noticed that they stopped working every time they had cigarette |