Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody might laugh , but just for something to do I was picturing the McLaren girl and I sitting alone in the hotel cafe . |
| 2 | So you can just get out right now and catch a bus or walk or whatever you want but I 'm not having you doing that in the back of my cab ! |
| 3 | are we doing those in the microwave ? |
| 4 | it 's completely anonymous number you know it 's only to be on that , said I 'll wipe it off then , you bloody well wo n't , I think he wants to tell people before he can say very wrong , could say something personal , if it was personal , no longer it , no you were n't personal to you , but I 'm quite happy to arrange it if you wish , no , no , no , no , no , , I should n't have to tell you not to take my points in full , there we go it 's driving me doing that in the factory having without people 's permission , I want to know , I ask permission if I 'd er wanted to as a without being asked to do it , I would of gone and seen personnel and asked , I would not of dreamed of doing it in a work 's situation unless I was asked , say anything personal I 'd turned it off not that it , apart from me and Stuart |
| 5 | I think of that , you would n't catch me doing that in the morning |
| 6 | Well bracksy and dead 's the same , they got him lying dead in the wood away down here at the . |
| 7 | Bert said he was tired , but she followed him , and found him standing alone in the room he had shared with Pat . |
| 8 | No oceanographer , when Balboa first strolled down to the gently lapping waters on the morning of that day , he had no reason to suppose that the ceremony — which would involve him standing ankle-deep in the water , the better to annex it — could not begin on schedule . |
| 9 | There 's a photograph of me sitting cross-legged in the drive proudly displaying my first bumper crop of onions which Nigel learned to string à la français . |
| 10 | Thank you , Lot number seventy six Lot number seventy six Peking er dishes there 's the Peking dishes , there 's seven of them , we 've got one of them showing seven in the for a hundred pounds one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds and ten , at one hundred and ten pounds , any more at one hundred and ten , twenty , thirty one forty in front , one fifty one sixty , seventy yes ? one eighty , thank you one eighty in front , at a hundred and eighty pounds and selling for one hundred and eighty . |
| 11 | He had n't spotted them standing deep in the shadows . |
| 12 | You can reload it using Open in the file menu . |
| 13 | For a great many others , however , particularly those who made up the largely illiterate and religiously unsophisticated rural masses , it brought insufficient comfort and left them feeling powerless in the face of disaster . |
| 14 | We finally made it to the road and sped along towards the village in a cloud of dust , the three of us crouching low in the jeep . |