Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone goes shopping in Oxford . |
| 2 | I mean hearing from God is much more important than scotsport , is n't it ? |
| 3 | That 's what , I mean according to Tracey on |
| 4 | I mean bearing in mind that all the resources were broken down presumably the were separate gangs we could n't really make |
| 5 | Anyway , the poi , the other thing is erm then obviously this re , concerns really you know , you two at the moment , but , players for next year , I mean bearing in mind we are gon na lose a few . |
| 6 | The healing process — I mean working through things like guilt and remorse — that 's all really valuable . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't mind me saying this , I mean talking about Fiona like this , do you ? ’ |
| 8 | That depends on , I mean talking about action planning and |
| 9 | I mean talking to Charlie , just asking about getting some student bands on |
| 10 | While I contemplate screaming for mercy . ) |
| 11 | Now draw a much more elastic I curve passing through point a . |
| 12 | On top of everything , he gave me 500 dollars for my twenty-first birthday and it 's this I intend sharing between Jenny and the family . ’ |
| 13 | She says I intend going to Strasbourg on Monday to argue that this report has been irresponsibly drawn up . |
| 14 | ‘ That is what I intend doing in India , and I think it can work . ’ |
| 15 | After I have put the phone down I sit gazing at Kyle on the opposite side of the airwell . |
| 16 | In 1980 I got chatting to Stan Francourt , the caddie who was with me when I had the accident in 1973 . |
| 17 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
| 18 | I hate staying in hotels , they 're so impersonal , and this is rather spectacular . |
| 19 | In fact , I hate playing in Britain because I 've always wanted to play in Spain or Belgium where they 'd understand me . |
| 20 | Actually I hate playing in shops . |
| 21 | er , I hate driving on motorways ! |
| 22 | I hate talking in offices . |
| 23 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 24 | But after a pause he went on to add , ‘ Except for kids , I hate going to post-mortems for kids ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 21 ) . |
| 25 | I tried staying in town overnight and then driving home during the day to spend time with Maisie . |
| 26 | All the variety and wit , also the musical sense , I found wanting in Nucci ( Decca ) is displayed here , placing Bruson almost in the class of Tibbett ( Panizza/Music and Arts ) and Valdengo ( Toscanini/RCA ) in the two historic sets recently issued on CD , and — like those baritones — Bruson has precisely the weight the role calls for . |
| 27 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
| 28 | I stopped listening to Jake Rosso 's records , and took his pictures off my bedroom wall . |
| 29 | I stopped listening to Mudhoney after ‘ This Gift ’ , the follow-up to their still superior ‘ Superfuzz Bigmuff ’ which failed to deliver anything as immediately impressive . |
| 30 | I stopped listening to Mavis and sat staring at Toby . |