Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 2 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 3 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 4 | In other words , nothing relating to the second NTSB recommendation in the Windsor accident report had been done . |
| 5 | After they had left , she stood in the doorway and watched them walking down the main street past the square . |
| 6 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ Nor was I hinting for a guided tour . |
| 8 | In 1986 the Eurotunnel prospectus was published and some of £206m of private money raised in what is generally termed Equity II , Equity I consisting of an earlier placement of £57m by the founder shareholders of Eurotunnel . |
| 9 | Usually someone sneaking towards an artistic niche does so in a sideways , disguised fashion , and under cover of darkness , like a smuggler . |
| 10 | They had only taken a step or two when they heard a rustle in the leaves , and a sound like someone huffing under a heavy load . |
| 11 | Catch someone gettin' off the late bus from Tucker . ’ |
| 12 | Why am I looking for a new job ? |
| 13 | For if we suppose this we shall fall into an infinite regress ; we shall find ourselves looking for a further interpretation . |
| 14 | If we examine what it is one participant is ready to see that other participants might read into a situation and what it is that will cause him to provide ritual remedies , followed by relief for these efforts , we find ourselves looking at the central moral traditions of Western culture . |
| 15 | We followed a pleasant bridle path through trees and soon found ourselves listening to the sweet bubbling song of a black cap . |
| 16 | At this point , someone searching for a simple definition of pragmatics is likely to be exhausted . |
| 17 | The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him . |
| 18 | When he came alongside a trawler 25 miles out from the English coast he asked : ‘ Am I going in the right direction for France ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Am I speaking to the radiant bride ? ’ |
| 20 | I thought I saw someone moving in the front room . |
| 21 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 22 | Someone calling at The Two Pheasants , I suppose , or at the Shoosmiths . ’ |
| 23 | It 's easy to sway the emotions by showing monkeys with their brains cut open , genetically stunted pigs or smoking beagles , less so to drag on someone suffering from a vile disease and say ‘ this person will die unless we keep on chopping up small furry creatures . ’ |
| 24 | But downstairs I rang the bell next to the black steel gates and after a while I heard someone coming to the front door . |
| 25 | to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff . |
| 26 | Her Memoirs ( 1810 ) mention the writing of fiction obliquely ( ‘ was I soaring into the airy regions of fiction , I would quickly change the theme ’ ) , but do not mention any of the novels ascribed to her . |
| 27 | ‘ Someone jumping to an erroneous conclusion about your needs before you 've had a chance to explain yourself ’ . |
| 28 | That was the first occasion when I saw my exercising as an irritating use of time , because it got in the way of our friendship . |
| 29 | In TA it is observed that the strokes that work best are often unconditional rather than solely dependent upon someone behaving in the desired way . |
| 30 | He pointed to someone sitting in the front row . |