Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want a divorce , that 's what I want , but he 'll not budge as long as he 's drawing two salaries and has me cooking for him — but I 'll not eat with him , I stick myself in that tiny kitchen in there — can you imagine the life I lead ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 4 | Contracts for the loan of money and supply of goods to infants and ‘ accounts stated ’ with infants were made altogether void , while the possibility of ratification was taken away from all those contracts which required ratification to make them binding upon him after attaining full age ; and even a new promise to perform the contract , whether made upon a fresh consideration or not , could not be enforced by action . |
| 5 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |
| 6 | Roger from Ramsey was driving , and a good enough hand with horses and wagons , but what chance did he have with the pair of them drawing on him ? |
| 7 | And this chap in pen , and it showed them drawing on his lips when he was anaesthetized where you |
| 8 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 9 | Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd far sooner watch Big Tom And The Mainliners making a balls of some country'n'western song with their toupees on crooked and them singing in Monaghan accents . |
| 11 | Since the work is covered by Building Regulations , you will need to inform your local authority ; they may well tell you the type of trench necessary , the ways the drains have to be laid in them depending on local soil conditions and the material to be used for the drains . |
| 12 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 13 | If you choose one of these kinds of carpets they should be laid on the paper to stop them sticking to the floor . |
| 14 | There are not enough young girls playing , not enough of them competing for places . |
| 15 | Mothers are all right , I suppose , you 'd miss them fussing about the place , but ould fellows are like that hind tits of a cow – no good for use or ornament . |
| 16 | Hughes removed Desmond Haynes , Phil Simmons and Richie Richardson in the last session , leaving them struggling at 62-3 . |
| 17 | You could see them struggling for answers and coming up with nothing at all . |
| 18 | ‘ Waiting is the worst , ’ Rose said sympathetically as she saw them struggling with food . |
| 19 | A group of burly malai soldiers came jogging in full combat gear from the other direction , the little sergeant who was trotting beside them bestowing on me a suspicious glare . |
| 20 | Earlier in the day , the police task force moved on bands of New Age travellers , trying to stop them gathering for a festival this weekend . |
| 21 | I could hear them fumbling with the ladder at the window . |
| 22 | I wandered among the stone cleithan above the village , and imagined them hanging with sides of mutton and gannets , or perhaps some of them held hay for the animals or peat for burning . |
| 23 | This evening I visited Scouse 's latrine , the mosquitoes and all the flies were having a fieldday ; there were clouds of them hanging over the latrine in the still evening air . |
| 24 | This does n't apply , however , if you 're only offering them a small amount of food to keep them hanging around the sett for a little longer than usual . |
| 25 | They did n't want one of them hanging round Eileen , who was too young yet to know what a fool she was making of herself . |
| 26 | A pattern is forming — a str–tegy , her strategy — her acting , me reacting like a frog 's hind leg ! |
| 27 | Concerning a downtrodden girl in a back-street bedroom with an amazing talent for vocal mimicry , it was specially written for her after the playwright ‘ heard me singing as Shirley Bassey , Judy Garland and Cilla Black in the garden ’ . |
| 28 | After a couple of hours on Outrun or Road Rash , you 'll see them whizzing through Kwiksave with a trolley on a mission or storming through red lights in a Fiat Panda . |
| 29 | Oi Dan I 've got ta , I 've got ta play you , I 've got ta play you later on of me apologizing to the Norwegians . |
| 30 | And I suspect that if we offered them counselling from cater good catering advice on how to maximise their market return they 'll do it because I would n't hang about for a meal if I knew that they would n't give you a meal in fifteen minutes , I 'd go and eat somewhere else . |