Example sentences of "[v-ing] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Selby for allowing me to quote from the letter . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you suggesting I went into the house for some other reason ? |
| 3 | On landing I sought for the cottage occupied by the Duke of Hamilton 's piper , in which some friends had found most comfortable quarters the season before . |
| 4 | And if you 're imagining I pine for the delights of the conjugal bed now my wife 's left me , you 're a bit off-beam there , too . |
| 5 | me , me , me going me going to the moon |
| 6 | Erm yes he , I believe it th th that stage was when er he said we 'll put y we 'll pus we 'll find some clothes for you mate erm , I I do recollect P C going I think to the foot of the double bed or near to the base of the double bed where he found a pair of erm jeans and I do remember him checking the pockets erm and then helping or trying like put the jeans on on the man that was lying on the ground still handcuffed . |
| 7 | While I was waiting I glanced at the stamp that was on my hand . |
| 8 | And Mum : Mum , thanks for letting me go to the fair . ’ |
| 9 | Now a recap of tonight 's main news stories with Karen Fraser joining me to interpret for the deaf . |
| 10 | Time for a recap of tonight 's main stories with Karen Fraser joining me to interpret for the deaf . |
| 11 | Now another look at today 's main news stories with Karen Fraser joining me to interpret for the deaf . |
| 12 | Now another look at today 's main news stories with Karen Fraser joining me to interpret for the deaf . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're asking me to work round the police department here . ’ |
| 14 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 15 | And I made them jigs and whatnot. when they come to do it at Dolgarrog when they come to want them doing I said to the to the the chief engineer I said , he told me about they were going get these commutators done here machine . |
| 16 | ‘ Will you tell them the quarry has an ally on the train , travelling I think with the racegoers . |
| 17 | I says on a night-time , I said , you know , she ca n't leave her home now , I said , she ca n't manage to put coal on fire , and she ca n't manage to get up up to eat and drink and that , I said , I do n't mind dropping off and taking me turn on the night-time but I mean , but it 's hard , it 's hard with me with kids every night . |
| 18 | Her goal was not to rest , ’ he said sadly , finding me lying on the sofa with a book . |
| 19 | It was what they used to call a " banger " and it exploded at my feet as I hurried along the dark passage in answer to the door bell 's ring , making me leap into the air in terror . |
| 20 | Again I wondered at Edward 's way of making me feel like the useless son out of a folk-tale who had stumbled by chance into the hollow hills . |
| 21 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |
| 22 | I know nothing about radio — but I do n't need to , I realize , because , even while I watch , the waves are softly withdrawing from the wavebands , as from a beach at low tide on a calm summer 's afternoon , leaving me gazing through the darkness of my son 's bedroom at three shirts , two of them size 35 long , one of them size 32 medium . |
| 23 | He 's always sending me flowers , leaving me notes around the house or crazy messages on the answering machine . |
| 24 | One time the doctor puts on rubber gloves and says something to Mum , and she goes out , leaving me sitting on the high bed , dangling my legs . |
| 25 | Then suddenly she was gone , leaving me to ponder along the unpredictable and intractable nature of language as a medium of communication . |
| 26 | Again we got into time constraints , there was one or two things obviously that were n't filled in , but I think that 's only been nitpicking I think at the time . |
| 27 | During a quick wander round the accessible parts of the ship at the end of the evening I noticed a wonderful old binnacle , preserved from the former Royal Yacht , Victoria and Albert , and before leaving I rested by the quarter deck rail to listen to the ship 's Royal Marine Band play classical selections on the quayside . |
| 28 | At the enquiry which followed one manager said ‘ I always light the oxygen first , and when that is burning I turn on the gas ’ . |