Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 32 | It was also surprising to hear that so many found it possible to stick to this diet when normally they found themselves lacking in the willpower department . |
| 33 | Let him picture her pottering in the improvised chaos of a damp , windowless room … |
| 34 | Experts say it 's vital they prevent it happening in the future . |
| 35 | Through the letterbox , they saw her lying in the hall , covered in blood . |
| 36 | They said everyone living in the building was accounted for . |
| 37 | ‘ Do n't they teach you cooking in the Army ? ’ |
| 38 | ‘ They see him walking in the street late at night . |
| 39 | We see ( again , particularly in the public sector ) institutions collectively framing their own mission statements , as they seek to define the particular role they see themselves fulfilling in the national system of higher education . |
| 40 | ‘ She will start training for Wimbledon this weekend , ’ added her agent , but he admitted her playing in the year 's third Grand Slam tournament was ‘ not a certainty ’ . |
| 41 | He wants everyone pointing in the same direction , and that means a common culture and a common status . |
| 42 | As Huy came closer , he noticed something glinting in the half light , not quite halfway up the door and towards its centre . |
| 43 | ‘ Well that 's the way things are goin' over here , and that 's the way he sees it goin' in the future , under the Government constraints he outlined at that meetin' . ’ |
| 44 | Peter Lunnen , who took the call , said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that as he shouted down the telephone line to Mrs Wilks , he heard her speaking in the distance . |
| 45 | Very clearly he saw himself standing in the BBC Club with Sherlock Forster and hearing the name of Marius Steen , the name that had come to dominate his life . |
| 46 | She did not know of the vow he had made that if it ever did come he would make sure she was the first to go , even if it meant him staying in the Cages . |
| 47 | When the 30-year-old man caught the girl climbing while wearing a coat , he left her hanging in the garment from a peg . |
| 48 | ‘ Nothing to stop him hiding in the house . ’ |
| 49 | That 's what keeps them fighting in the hills . ’ |
| 50 | That was what set me thinking in the first place . ’ |