Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd er you might it might be worth writing around to see what the or or even ask the people who are running the correspondence course you know what |
| 2 | ‘ She knows we 're anxious to see him , and does n't expect him to go rushing off to see her the minute he arrives . ’ |
| 3 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 4 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 5 | The unstoppable pair of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent are doubling up to make it a foursome for the race from Mortlake to Putney tomorrow . |
| 6 | ‘ In the end I was acting mum to six orphaned baby hedgehogs — getting up to feed them every three hours , which is n't much fun . |
| 7 | Alejandro caught me stealing out to water them the first night . |
| 8 | It was her friend Pepe , a Mexican worker , coming over to offer her a drink of rum . |
| 9 | You 've got ta go looking Alison you ge , the trouble is erm when they 've got ta keep coming out to show you the places is n't it ? |
| 10 | The glow from the furnace in the steam-filled room was like the flames of hell licking out to show her the place where her father had gone . |
| 11 | They may be still too ill to see visitors , ’ he warned gently , bending down to hand her the cup and saucer . |
| 12 | The new operators are setting out to make it a much bigger draw . |
| 13 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 14 | When Carrie had some feeling back in her cold limbs she began bustling around to cook them a meal while Seb sat using part of the kitchen table to work on the farm accounts in the pool of yellow light cast by the lamp . |