Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Er the gentleman coming from Scotland on Saturday is bringing me all the table linen and we 're table linen for . |
2 | If you are encouraging them all the time to consider propositions or arguments and then what evidence has been marshalled in support and the like , then you want them to come out like that … . |
3 | You need three paint brushes ( you should already have these and be using them all the time ) : a ) Clean brush for cleaning the fluff from the actual machine — around the needles and so on . |
4 | He was driving her crazy the way he was holding her and the way he was looking down at her with smouldering blue eyes . |
5 | ‘ You ca n't keep challenging it all the time because otherwise they just stop listening to you . |
6 | ‘ She insisted on helping her clean the mussels . ’ |
7 | So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed . |
8 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
9 | She mopped the liquid up from the floor with a clean towel , though she knew it meant presently lugging it all the way down to the launderette . |
10 | The ride itself was reasonably uneventful , a marvellous tailwind pushing us all the way to Royston for the first seventy miles , then pushing us back to Royston for the next hundred miles . |
11 | ‘ We can have the Jheri-Curls chasin' us all the time tryin' to cut our hair and throw chemicals in it ! ’ |
12 | You 've been hurrying me all the way . " |
13 | We do n't always want to be testing ourselves all the time , do we ? |
14 | According to the usual precepts of cricket 's scriptwriting , Pakistan would now recover their poise , the match would be won without further wickets falling , and everybody would be left wondering what all the hubbub and expectancy had been about . |
15 | IN Brazil they are wondering what all the fuss is about . |
16 | And I think — ’ her eyes wandered doubtfully to Ferryman , who was still grinning , wondering what all the fuss was about — ‘ they got quite a lot out of it . ’ |
17 | We should not be panicked however into top-down/control solutions , for many of these ‘ new ’ skills which are apparently so daunting at the moment ( reading a financial statement ? ) are easily learnt by intelligent people and in two or three years , at that level , we shall be wondering what all the fuss was about . |
18 | Not surprisingly , their performance was slack and many former friends and jealous local bands , who had charted their progress in the music press , were left wondering what all the fuss was about . |
19 | A decade from now we might , as you suggest , be wondering what all the fuss was about . |
20 | THE first Batman film left me wondering what all the fuss was about . |
21 | We both pissed ourselves laughing afterwards , wondering what all the fuss was about . |
22 | They arrived without shoes , their hair like birds ’ nests and bleary eyed wondering what all the fuss was about . |
23 | In the event , the Ventura users are probably wondering what all the fuss is about . |
24 | But those who saw Saturday 's world premiere in Leeds including Princess Margaret were left wondering what all the fuss had been about . |
25 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |
26 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time , only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied , or at the door of a friend of my mother 's with a boy she fancied for me inside . |
27 | They wrangled interminably , he goading her into outbursts of anger just to watch her beauty at its best , she calling him all the names she could lay her tongue to . |
28 | I go back to thinking that the best way of changing the environment of the colleges would be to try and erm I mean talking again as if it 's boys perpetrating it all the time erm boys will stop doing it if women respond differently . |
29 | And in his opinion that meant sending it all the way to Sotheby 's whose rural saleroom in a stately home in Billingshurst , West Sussex , has made a speciality in recent years of sales of garden furniture , fittings and statuary . |
30 | It must have been awkward getting it all the way to Hochhauser from London . |