Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first reasonably reliable and convincing learning task for Drosophila involved training them using just this sense of smell . |
| 2 | They have n't found their sea legs yet , and a sudden lurch can bring several of them raining down on our faces . |
| 3 | As they were collapsing , the gravitational pull of matter outside these regions might start them rotating slightly . |
| 4 | He did n't need me building up yet more false hopes which did nothing except try his patience . |
| 5 | I can imagine what he 'll think if you ring him up and say you 've found me weeping over my special patient ! |
| 6 | I wondered what on earth John would think if he saw all this ; his friends in church , many for the first time in years , strangers saying prayers for him , me weeping over his photograph . |
| 7 | Statue of me Gazing out |
| 8 | A puff of wind swung it round on its vane , and snatched a bunch of twigs from its beak and sent them twirling slowly down the steeple to the ground at Carol 's feet , where they sank into the snow . |
| 9 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 10 | And finally , as she went to bed , she heard them singing softly , shushing each other and giggling , as one clear voice ( Sue 's , she recognized ) carried on the melody . |
| 11 | that 'll save me phoning up to say can I have a script please |
| 12 | Now if you like you can sign all it says is erm it just it 's just telling you what it is and saying that you do n't mind them typing up the words form this . |
| 13 | Those are rocks and you are sitting on them gazing out to sea . |
| 14 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 15 | The professor was asked out to preach in mining parishes ; and he discovered that , despite the views of the Bishop of Lincoln and the teenagers of St Benet 's that he was unintelligible in a pulpit , he could feel them hanging on his words . |
| 16 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 17 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 18 | A draw against the Italians at Ibrox will keep them hanging on , while defeat would surely end that proud sequence . |
| 19 | There were rows of them hanging on hooks , and stacks of them leaning against one another on the floor . |
| 20 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 21 | Just the two of them hanging on in that decaying old house , ’ Schellenberg said . |
| 22 | I I would n't have them hanging out , and we 've got to keep them . |
| 23 | Now he would always have them hanging about , making him feel guilty , getting in his way . |
| 24 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 25 | ‘ Here 's me goin' on about my life , and you have n't told me about yours . |
| 26 | The senior man , who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington , he 'd be everybody 's friend , he 'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism , he 'd probably take out citizenship . |
| 27 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 28 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 29 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , you wo n't need me eating out of your hand to make me fast or efficient , ’ Luce said bleakly . |