Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 2 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 3 | Watching it or listening to it on the |
| 4 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 5 | He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647–8 , in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith . |
| 6 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 7 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 8 | She grasped his body , his hair , clinging to him on the brink of chaos . |
| 9 | You can not rely on the right questions coming to you on the spur of the moment . |
| 10 | If talking to her on the phone does n't work then I 'll have to reconsider my position . ’ |
| 11 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 12 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 13 | Well they love talking to them on the phone do n't they ? |
| 14 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 15 | I know Ellen Garwood loved to call him Mr Green , and when she would write me letters thinking that Mr Green was her real son , I got the impression that she was talking to me on the telephone underneath her bed , about the fun she was having . |
| 16 | Now , here you are , talking to me on the phone . |
| 17 | Yes , well , as a matter of fact er , the moderator was talking to me on the telephone |
| 18 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 19 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |
| 20 | Such patterns of stress may be so much more damaging than the sum of their separate effects because their co-existence leads to a different attribution of meaning to them on the part of the child . |