Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that gradually we will stop seeing them begging on the streets without any prospects for their future . |
| 2 | Far from being an eyesore , local people get pleasure seeing them blowing in the wind . |
| 3 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
| 4 | The eggs , even before they hatch , require great care , reducing the time a parent bird can spend finding food for itself and keeping it sitting on the ground or in the branches of a tree where it is exposed to much more danger than it would be in the air . |
| 5 | I was imagining you sitting in the back anyway . |
| 6 | Then meeting him walking on the Heath . |
| 7 | me , me , me going me going to the moon |
| 8 | This discrepancy is in part , caused by the many reports in which patients with reflux oesophagitis are taken as a single group , without separating them according to the degree or severity of the injury to the oesophageal mucosa , and in part by the lack of manometric studies in the same patients . |
| 9 | It is believed the platform of the hoist toppled over the first floor balcony sending them crashing to the ground floor . |
| 10 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 11 | The second hit him in the right shoulder , the impact lifting him off his feet and sending him toppling towards the head of the stairs . |
| 12 | The door shot open , knocking Bill from his feet and sending him sprawling across the sidewalk . |
| 13 | Dreams and reality had collided in her shocked mind with stunning force , sending her hurtling over the edge of that invisible precipice , and the fall had broken her into a thousand agonising pieces , like brittle shards of glass that could never be whole again . |
| 14 | Scathach opened the heavy wooden door and Tallis quickly gave the horse its freedom , sending her trotting to the south , away from the disturbance . |
| 15 | He sighed heavily , then taking back his heavily booted foot he kicked her in the chest , sending her skidding across the gravel . |
| 16 | The Police Federation has attacked the initiative , calling it crimefighting on the cheap . |
| 17 | To release the ball , hit Fire , sending it powering towards the tiles . |
| 18 | He suddenly grabbed the beer can and hurled it against the wall then upturned the table , sending it crashing against the cooker . |
| 19 | Her outstretched hand disturbed a fragment of loose rock , sending it tumbling over the precipice ; for one hideous moment she fancied the entire ledge was on the move and about to hurl her into the chasm . |
| 20 | Then he opened them and kicked savagely at a lump of dried mud , sending it sailing across the yard to explode against the side of the stable . |
| 21 | Instead , it 's entirely freestanding , allowing you to swing it as hard as you like without risking it flying off the table , a major fault with many wheels . |
| 22 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 23 | workmen do n't guarantee that he is doing it according to the thing because |
| 24 | Seeing him towering over the young hedgehog like that , licking his great , greedy chops … |
| 25 | And it 's trying to pull the planets in , Lee , but other stars are pulling them and stopping them falling into the sun . |
| 26 | Very dan very difficult you 've got to take steps of blocking off drains and stopping it getting in the waterways and you , you succeed sometimes , you do n't success on other times and this is why er these accidents happen where all the fish and places die and people get contaminated , cattle get contaminated , all sorts of things . |
| 27 | The aim is to scrutinize it with a view to stopping it coming through the door next time . |
| 28 | Dropping the useless stems , she used all her strength to swing her briefcase in a wide arc , bringing it crashing into the man 's stomach . |
| 29 | Her goal was not to rest , ’ he said sadly , finding me lying on the sofa with a book . |
| 30 | I assumed it was coincidence , seeing him in Wexford , and then finding him staying in the same hotel . |