Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had one pissing me off all weekend . |
| 2 | The young Sheikh went through room after room , helping me over some unfinished bit of floor , speaking quickly and sharply to the building foreman , moving the placing of some light fitting . |
| 3 | Too too noisy and dogs were keeping them up all night . |
| 4 | Dustin recalled that the director drove himself and his crew to the limits of endurance by keeping them up half the night , as he was never satisfied with the outcome of one take . |
| 5 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 6 | Ray was knocking them down one by one , unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down . |
| 7 | Forgive me for keeping you up all night . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been winding her up all day , ’ shouted Luke . |
| 9 | I was winding him up some because I thought he deserved it . |
| 10 | He claimed if a developer had to meet the cost of knocking it down each flat would cost £50,000 to build . |
| 11 | buying old say a scrapped a written off Sierra you know , picking them up cheap for about a thousand quid from the scrappy |
| 12 | Right , I do n't , I mu , I must say I do n't think I would of won without Karen , she got most of them , I was writing them down most of the time . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , he 's picking me up any minute , ’ Belinda answered Deana in a moment of daring wickedness . |
| 14 | Hello there man , of course I 'm awake , I 'm eating my tea , ha you 're wrong , Russell 's organizing his night so that he 's gon na pick you up half eight quarter to nine okay well I , I ai n't had a shower or anything yet , I mean er everything 's organized I organized it all for picking you up eight quarter to nine , bless you , what 's your number ? |
| 15 | In a little while the waiter was back , bowing , smiling , leading them up two flights of steps then through to a table at the centre of the house . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll take care of it , do n't worry , ’ Christina assured them , before leading them down four deep stone steps and along a pathway , past a bright wall of alamanda and hibiscus bushes camouflaging the car park . |
| 17 | If you want to warm rooms in very cold temperatures set the heating to come on earlier rather than turning it up higher . |
| 18 | In spite of the lack of any right to secure payment , some unscrupulous firms have in the past found it profitable to market their wares by sending them out unsolicited . |
| 19 | He 's been calling me up all hours of the day and night complaining about you guys especially Steve . |
| 20 | His assistant Julian immediately offers me coffee , and explains in apologetic tones that Tony has been called out — ‘ but you 're down for 11.30 ’ — and that he 's expecting him back any moment . |
| 21 | Mum , that 's Carol , has been riding him out this week , while Dad , that 's Richard , the trainer and son , Tom have been masterminding and monitoring the build up . |
| 22 | Pressing S4 before or after this moment , or holding it down all the time , will have no effect on allowing the ball to pass the bat and scatter the stumps ! |
| 23 | The functional significance of non-propulsive motility is probably that of mixing intraluminal content and shifting it over short distances , permitting adequate absorbption of water and electrolytes . |
| 24 | She kept trying to trample them , slam the door , but he kept kicking it back open and sooner or later she 'd have to put a name to her feelings , and she was afraid , so afraid , that the name was love … but it must n't be , she thought savagely ; it ca n't be . |
| 25 | Nigel bought a pulley , and the offending object was banished — hoisted skywards , where it hung immobile except when lowered , which became mainly for the amusement of visiting children who nevertheless were informed that any bad behaviour would be punished by hauling them up twenty-five feet into space and leaving them . |
| 26 | I anticipate that at least two of the EFTA countries will place their applications before the Community shortly and that it will be possible to begin examining them in early 1993 . |
| 27 | Maybe it was something she found in one of her bins It was just six dots , anyway , and some lines joining them up Five of the dots had names , Sometimes she said they were stars , sometimes they were the names of cities . |
| 28 | Move exhausted pot roses outdoors , hardening them off first in cold seasons , and plunge the pots in the ground . |
| 29 | It 's no use taking up extreme reducing diets this week if we end up giving them up next week . |
| 30 | He 's been doin' what he 's been told to do , and feedin' me back all the inside information I need . |