Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you like you can sign all it says is erm it just it 's just telling you what it is and saying that you do n't mind them typing up the words form this . |
| 2 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 3 | Mum 's eyes popped to see me bringing home the fireman . |
| 4 | That 's where they should be , but we can see them lurking up the top there there 's |
| 5 | So to the beach Kaptan and I would go , or walk around the garden , pulling out weeds , me trimming back the undergrowth while he handed spare tools up the ladder . |
| 6 | Many passengers specially request to sit in the row of seats immediately behind the pilot , and you can see them checking out the instruments with the guide published in the airline 's in-flight magazine . |
| 7 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 8 | The worst hazard of standing in that crowd was someone pissing down the back of your leg . ’ |
| 9 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |
| 10 | Willie was in the town garage , giving good advice to someone stripping down a motor bike . |
| 11 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 12 | ‘ hooligans on housing estates causing disturbances in the common parts of blocks of flats , blockading entrances , throwing things down stairs , banging on doors , peering in at windows , and knocking over dustbins ; groups of youths persistently shouting abuse and obscenities or pestering people waiting to catch public transport or to enter a hall or cinema ; someone turning out the light in a crowded dance hall , in a way likely to cause panic ; rowdy behaviour in the streets late at night which alarms local residents . ’ |
| 13 | It is rather like someone switching on a cassette in one room and then walking into another . |
| 14 | She plugged and unplugged that cross-wired old switchboard with the ease of someone switching on the radio . |
| 15 | On another occasion he gave chase to someone running down the platform but when he reached the platform end whoever it was or was n't had vanished . |
| 16 | The four Commandos on the 3″ mortar were still firing their bombs , each as it left the muzzle of the mortar making a distinctive musical sound like someone blowing down a length of drainpipe . |
| 17 | She thought she heard someone coming down the passage , so she grabbed two paper towels and wrapped them round the offending literature . |
| 18 | It is likely that someone taking up a post direct from library school will have far less practical or quasi-practical experience of book selection than of the two preceding activities , and this may mean that the manager needs to introduce his staff to the basic elements of book provision work in addition to the special features of a particular system . |
| 19 | Thus someone taking only a pledge can not acquire good title by virtue of this provision . |
| 20 | ‘ And I suppose that was the first you knew of my taking over the part ? ’ |
| 21 | There were stories about the echo on those records being created by someone standing down the end of the corridor and playing . |
| 22 | someone tugging off a pair of tights … |
| 23 | So dey picking up de microphone fe dere expression |
| 24 | And then me picking up the keys living here and taking it down the road ! |
| 25 | The memory of lightning flaring between the cracks in the boards and me pushing home the four-inch nails with numb fingers arrived simultaneous with the patter of descending footsteps … |
| 26 | They scribes , but even then if you 've got somebody climbing up the top of a palette , shouting |
| 27 | Erm if we see you know , if we see somebody walking down a walkway , and he 's got a stereo in his arm , arms should I say , and he puts it into a car then obviously it a it arouses our suspicion , we 'll take a quick note of the car 's registration number , and we 'll pass the relevant information through to Police Station . |
| 28 | In spite of the Jockey Club 's apparent determination to play down the doping cases and its hushing up the Flash of Straw investigations until now , it does seem that there is a sinister element at large in British horse racing . |
| 29 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 30 | Tom found himself looking down the barrel of a gun . |