Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 2 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 4 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 5 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 6 | Once she kept me hanging around for an hour and a half , which might sound like a backward step , but you have to remember she was sitting in a place of her own choice , and was taking it all in . |
| 7 | COLWYN BAY 'S BJ Welsh Knockout Cup campaign ended in disaster when unfancied Pontblyddyn sent them crashing out with a seven-wicket blasting . |
| 8 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 9 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 10 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 11 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 12 | You could hear them squeaking off from a distance . |
| 13 | And then they heard me tearing out of the sound-web . |
| 14 | I mean you see them walking around particularly people who go for the big dogs , you see them walking around with a big thick necks , the tattoos , the er the boots and the jeans rolled up . |
| 15 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 16 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 17 | Why am I walking backwards into the house ? |
| 18 | I going round for a collection too . |
| 19 | No way was I going out with a Famlio ship in my flight path . |
| 20 | I coming up through the floorboards . |
| 21 | I still remember that Christmas Day — the inspector and I standing there in the drizzle — the city of Belfast enjoying an uneasy period of quietness with the men of violence possibly challenged by their memories of the Christmas Message and declaring a truce [ for Christmas only ] . |
| 22 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 23 | This resistor absorbs the network signals and stops them bouncing back down the wire . |
| 24 | The world is full of stray cats , many of them searching hopefully for a new home . |
| 25 | Apparently you could hear them shouting all round the college . |
| 26 | It is said that if you visit the Mermaid Pool of Derbyshire just before dawn , you will see them swimming gracefully in the dark waters below . |
| 27 | " You did n't mind me looking in at the window , Stephen ? |
| 28 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
| 29 | He already knew most of the city 's different districts and its short cuts , its sudden changes of place and people ; it was just that now he would see the shop windows shining at night instead of by day , see them gliding past from a car or taxi window as he was driven home for the night . |
| 30 | The only positive aspect is that since it attracts the seediest sort of tourist , it keeps them all in one place like a gigantic concrete fly-paper , and stops them wandering all over the unspoiled parts of the Highlands looking for go-cart tracks and timeshare chalets . |