Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 2 | He could n't go on seeing her in the circumstances . |
| 3 | He went on pressing it until the starter engine ground to a halt . |
| 4 | it 'll only be until I should think erm next Tuesday will be the last batch , cos we 've got these bank holidays fortunately in the , in the way where I T still work but we do n't and so they 're gon na fix , they 'll carry on fixing it over the weekend . |
| 5 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | Ah , well you 'll have to take it up there then , you 'd be better off joining it at the back if you 're gon na join it |
| 7 | He comes over ours at Christmas and he does my head in cos he keeps on kicking me at the dinner table ! |
| 8 | I ended up chasing her around the house fucking photo . |
| 9 | No I ended up putting them in the box Joan had him out yesterday . |
| 10 | as if sensing that she had given up fighting him for the present , fitzAlan released her immediately , frowning down at her distraught face . |
| 11 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 12 | He went on admiring them in the face of the snobbish dismissal of them by many artists of the Hague school , who sneered at woodcuts as ‘ those things you find in the South Holland Café . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Stupid , crazy female , ’ was all he said as he set about bandaging it with the meagre contents of the first-aid box . |
| 14 | But after Habitat set about educating them to the advantages of the idea , the Americans adopted it with tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 15 | In Parliament , he was one of the young Conservative MPs who welcomed , from a position of strength as they thought , the accession of Labour into British political life , and set about educating it in the arts of responsible participation in the polity . |