Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes . |
| 2 | You wo n't catch me behaving like that . |
| 3 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 4 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 5 | To reduce this ambiguity , it is necessary to eliminate the incorrect letter candidates in each position , or at least rank them according to some measure of their plausibility . |
| 6 | He side-slipped to miss three tightly spiralling planes , and found himself drifting into another cluster . |
| 7 | In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock . |
| 8 | Charlie found himself waiting in another queue before coming face to face with the sergeant again . |
| 9 | He found himself responding to some of the ideas that the Tunisians gently explored in their tents . |
| 10 | This has you aiming for each number in turn ( 1–20 ) , finishing on the bull . |
| 11 | no he was right that 's what I say you thinking about that thing , this is n't just doing it as it said , you ponder |
| 12 | And if the recession continued much longer she might return to London to find herself looking for some other occupation to keep the roof over her head — but that was her secret . |
| 13 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |
| 14 | The name stuck in her throat , and she found herself fighting against this ludicrous anger . |
| 15 | I want him waiting by this corner . |
| 16 | Another message — ‘ Ease his pain ’ — sends the farmer off to Boston to find a reclusive novelist ( James Earl Jones ) and a third imprecation from the skies — ‘ Go the distance ’ has him looking for another old baseballer ( Burt Lancaster ) who played just once for the New York Giants before becoming a much-loved doctor . |
| 17 | His support for Iraq has won him backing from all quarters , from western-educated intellectuals to Muslim Brothers . |
| 18 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 19 | I found him reflecting on this problem with his usual shrewdness . |
| 20 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
| 21 | At least , I did not catch him whispering to any of the other people going in and out of the place , and he did not point me out to anyone at any time . |
| 22 | She had caught him flirting with another woman . |
| 23 | It 's not been recently has it according to that ? |
| 24 | I says to her that 's what I want , you know I want mine doing like that |
| 25 | And you know to some extent it 's just time and keeping yourself ticking over that 's going to get that aspect of things better . |
| 26 | They are the only reasons you content yourself sitting behind that desk now . |
| 27 | LEO You are bound to find yourself thinking about all sorts of future possibilities now ! |
| 28 | Well she stopped us going up that lane in the car , by |
| 29 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
| 30 | ‘ If I so much as catch you smiling at another woman — ’ |