Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
| 2 | Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full . |
| 3 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 4 | There was a spare one lying around We 'd finished u er stopped using them during the war some time during the war . |
| 5 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 6 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 7 | I shall quite enjoy taming you over the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 8 | The Hammers are considering a move for the 31-year-old , but Crosby said : ‘ I would n't consider selling him at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you enjoy trapping me in the library ? ’ asked Mr Fractor . |
| 11 | So I intended to try flying her for the assembly , and carefully got her down to her flying weight . |
| 12 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 13 | I 've even considered reporting it to the health people |
| 14 | ‘ She did n't consider accompanying you on the search for her daughter ? ’ |
| 15 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 16 | They , they stopped having them on the , the seafront anyway . |
| 17 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 18 | Rather than give young children charcoal immediately on presentation , we suggest confining it to the few who develop symptoms — in a dose sufficient to increase elimination of the drug . |
| 19 | But young children had reported spotting him inside the school , putting paper on to the fire . |
| 20 | He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre . |
| 21 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 22 | Stop touching me in the knee Derek ! |
| 23 | This man , Tepilit , was injured helping me with the filming of a lion hunt . |
| 24 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 25 | Gwenellen thought neither , as if Marcus tonight was anything like Marcus last night Old Red would be far too busy to remember meeting me in the subway . |
| 26 | One they were going into a pub , and going into the toilets , you know , making a , so he had a a policeman waiting in and the toilets , for them you see , and the o one other , notable occasion he was seen chasing them down the main street in Morley , he got his cape on , you see , |
| 27 | As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one . |
| 28 | Jim Richards describes spotting him on the terrace of Shepheard 's Hotel , Cairo . |
| 29 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 30 | No sooner have the Doctor and Vicki gone than the erstwhile school teachers are captured by slave traders who intend selling them at the slave markets in Rome . |