Example sentences of "i [verb] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 2 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 3 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 4 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 5 | Erm I mean looking at the , er the only solution , I feel erm another poor factor of this committee is probably er erm unnecessary and if I look at appendix four which lists the possibles , if I can find , erm it is n't actually necessary to have rules all like this , er next years erm , next years priority will be dealt with next year . |
| 6 | I mean looking at the game you just could n't believe United would only get a point out of it erm when you went in at half time only one nil up , you so dominated the game I do n't think Charlton had a chance did they ? |
| 7 | There 's erm And I mean looking after the parish hall as well , why should we bother with that ? |
| 8 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 9 | I mean starting from the way children go to school in the morning — they expect their parents to take them quite often , and to contribute to pollution . |
| 10 | If I get a decent vote I intend going to the Guinness Book of Records for the highest number of votes for the smallest expenditure . ’ |
| 11 | Half awake , I lay listening to the silence . |
| 12 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 13 | I lay staring at the People below , coming to and going from the Silberner Hirsch . |
| 14 | I sit shivering in the armchair in this first-floor flat in Deptford , and I feel I 'm still trapped in a cupboard , listening for strange noises , till I realize they are the last images of the dream , slipping away like ghost bodies melting on the floor . |
| 15 | I hate looking at the meat , I hate touching it … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I hate going to the pictures . |
| 17 | I hate going to the cinema . |
| 18 | But I hate doing I hate creepy crawlies , I hate spiders and I hate going in the loft . |
| 19 | ‘ I love clothes — but I hate trailing round the shops . ’ |
| 20 | The same was true when I tried recording with the ME-6 through a Fostex desk onto cassette . |
| 21 | I tried going through the undergrowth and looping round — my sense of direction had far improved from peacetime — but the saw-toothed grasses left me bleeding like a scored steak . |
| 22 | I tried breathing through the sleeves of my tracksuit . |
| 23 | ‘ The amateurs do things you 'd never see in the commercial stuff , ’ I was told by one connoisseur of raunch , who I found sitting on the floor of a porn shop |
| 24 | ‘ The amateurs do things you 'd never see in the commercial stuff , ’ I was told by one connoisseur of raunch , an unemployed factory worker named Jesse who I found sitting on the floor of a porn shop in Manhattan 's Times Square , diligently sifting through dozens of the more hardcore amateur tapes . |
| 25 | Well , you see , the trouble is Marg I go out on my bike and I think , ooh it 's cold I 'll and then I forget going in the |
| 26 | I shimmied shivering to the bedsit , slotted another shilling in the gas fire and reached for the knob on the third drawer of the tallboy . |
| 27 | That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him . |
| 28 | ‘ I stop thinking about the problem . |
| 29 | I stop staring at the dancers as a French girl approaches . |
| 30 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |