Example sentences of "[v-ing] i the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 2 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 3 | What with contributions to the housekeeping , the holiday was going to end up costing me the best part of £500 . |
| 4 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 5 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 6 | He found it very hard selling me the smaller works . |
| 7 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 8 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 9 | Thank you for sending me the closing statement for the above account . |
| 10 | I 'm not asking you to help me , but at least you can let me get on with things instead of badgering me the whole time . |
| 11 | I shall always be grateful to him for not giving me the usual reply of an adult to a curious child 's questions , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ‘ |
| 12 | The Bölkow 207 is fitted with toe-operated rubber pedals on the P1 position only , so Nigel was being very trusting in giving me the only set of brakes . |
| 13 | And obviously Janet , you 'll be giving me the other one , so if you can take the time to look at it . |
| 14 | And far from being envious , it is giving me the greatest pleasure . ’ |
| 15 | At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna . |
| 16 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues . |
| 18 | She even got round giving me the wrong answer first , which I thought was quite subtle . |
| 19 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 20 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 21 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 22 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 23 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 24 | Signe drove the old VW carefully — she was a good driver — and insisted upon taking me the prettiest way to Inkeroinen , which meant through the little side roads around Kouvola . |
| 25 | ‘ What you 're doing , Eva , is handing me the old ‘ everyone 's a junkie ’ line , right ? |
| 26 | Lastly , I would like to thank my parents for making me the Judaeo-Christian hybrid that I am ; and my husband Timothy Boon for his support and ( not always welcome ) criticism . |
| 27 | I 've never loved him , but now I 've started to hate him — for making me the mercenary bitch I am . |
| 28 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
| 30 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |