Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adj] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We can have the Jheri-Curls chasin' us all the time tryin' to cut our hair and throw chemicals in it ! ’ |
| 11 | You 've been hurrying me all the way . " |
| 12 | We do n't always want to be testing ourselves all the time , do we ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | IN Brazil they are wondering what all the fuss is about . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A decade from now we might , as you suggest , be wondering what all the fuss was about . |
| 19 | THE first Batman film left me wondering what all the fuss was about . |
| 20 | We both pissed ourselves laughing afterwards , wondering what all the fuss was about . |
| 21 | They arrived without shoes , their hair like birds ’ nests and bleary eyed wondering what all the fuss was about . |
| 22 | In the event , the Ventura users are probably wondering what all the fuss is about . |
| 23 | But those who saw Saturday 's world premiere in Leeds including Princess Margaret were left wondering what all the fuss had been about . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 door of a friend of my mother 's with a boy she fancied for me inside . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It must have been awkward getting it all the way to Hochhauser from London . |
| 29 | I 'm kicking it all the while . |
| 30 | Big Mary staunin' herself oan the flair |