Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There are jokes even now when I go in the market about them glowing in the dark . ’
2 But some gun dealers have stopped selling replicas , because they 're worried about them falling into the wrong hands .
3 So stop worrying about me getting in the club , Muvver , I do n't get the bloody chance ! ’
4 My mother was absolutely marvellous about me going on the stage .
5 I was slightly annoyed at Jamie saying anything , even jokingly , about me going to the toilet ; he knows how sensitive I am about it .
6 We waited for them coming across the brig .
7 Both the Seller and the Purchaser shall each keep confidential and shall not without the prior consent in writing of the other disclose to any third party any technical or commercial information which it has acquired from the other as a result of discussions , negotiations and other communications between them relating to the goods and the Order .
8 Maybe the note said something about my going to the newspapers .
9 There did not seem to be a living soul left among the houses , except for someone banging on the door of the lock-up .
10 The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically .
11 as for my going before the rulers , I was no whit afraid or thoughtful , for I had cast my care upon the Lord , which I was persuaded would speak for me. therefore I was not troubled nor afraid , for the Lord said to me , ‘ Fear not , be not dismayed , I am thy God , and will stand by thee'
12 He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even .
13 What 'e did ter my dad after 'im workin' fer the man all those years was enough , apart from anyfing else . ’
14 it 's not so bad for somebody living on the south coast
15 The wife used to wait for somebody coming in the shop to buy something and then she 'd go out and get a a bit of meat and we 'd have a dinner , and er we had seven months of that before I was eventually more or less forced to go back .
16 In general they hoped , too , for considerable control over such measures and were unkeen about their falling into the hands of state bureaucracy .
17 Someone must have had a word with the band about their playing after the last tour and subsequent departure from east west Records because this show as a 200pc better affair .
18 ‘ All women possess not the Amazonian spirit of a Wolstonecraft [ sic ] ; but , indeed , unremitted oppression is sometimes a sufficient apology for their throwing off the gentle garb of a female . ’
19 56-56 Spencer , and came right towards me looking at the ground , then looking up quick as he must have sensed me .
20 Land Trusts , he thought , should be responsible for the proper exploitation of resources and would need to pay attention to the human and social needs of everyone living in the area .
21 The hope of everyone campaigning for the survival of the 130-year-old warship builder is that work will be allowed to continue on three frigates which are at various construction stages .
22 Oi Dan I 've got ta , I 've got ta play you , I 've got ta play you later on of me apologizing to the Norwegians .
23 Yeah but instead of me swimming to the steps
24 No , no I did n't tell anybody when I you know I when I was doing me upmost , of course they knew afterwards that er because of me going in the hospital you see .
25 Long-focus shots of me groping in the dark , or will it be more close-ups of my stupidity ? ’
26 Anyway , I 've always had this real fear of me appearing in the Mail On Sunday with my eyes shut and looking pissed , with some caption underneath saying ‘ Whose beer is it anyway ? ’ or ‘ Have I got booze for you ’ . ’
27 Ace turned off the news by remote control , cutting off the picture of them getting into the car on their way to the reception .
28 And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other .
29 ( The RSV seems clear enough when it speaks of them looking into the ark ( 6.19 ) , but the Hebrew will not really bear that sense , and would suggest they merely looked at it .
30 Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs .
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