Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were indestructible and to this day I regret ever falling for the slick adverts for trendy green ones . |
| 2 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 3 | I lay there waiting for the half-hour to pass ; and the silence of the house was still , that day , much more a silence of peace than one of fear . |
| 4 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 5 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | Fortunately , when I did we maintained a perfect climbing attitude , I completed my mission , during which I spent sometime thinking about the young airman who had done the daily inspection of the instruments , and had left the auto pilot engaged . |
| 7 | I remember again sitting in the airline office in Lima , chanting to myself the lines of Elizabeth Bishop , ‘ The art of losing is n't hard to master ’ , and tapping my shoulder-bag , thinking , this is the important one . |
| 8 | ‘ I remember also going to the Bank of England vaults to see whole rooms piled to the ceilings with gold bars . ’ |
| 9 | It is not so much the fact that she was consequently unable to vote for her father 's party , or , any other party for that matter , that I find so diverting as the reason that The Daily Telegraph gives for her binning her poll application material . |
| 10 | He pays the small amount and in fact I keep on meaning at the back of my brain to get hold of him and say has he been paying it . |
| 11 | I keep suddenly thinking of the enormity of it . |
| 12 | I went round commiserating with the ones I knew , pointing out that if the lady with the bosom was as late as she normally was , the reception would undoubtedly extend into licensing hours . |
| 13 | I kept on listening to the show . |
| 14 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 15 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 16 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 17 | If I have to read things up , this is a relaxation — I love music , I love gardening and I love just pottering round the house . |
| 18 | I carry on walking down the street , careful not to bump into people so I do n't fall over again . |
| 19 | I carry on talking with the same chattiness and speed that got Jane Austen 's heroines into trouble . |
| 20 | Chris , Nick and I carried on working under the umbrella of the Friends of John McCarthy . |
| 21 | I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in . |
| 22 | A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope . |
| 23 | I sat around picking over the few facts I knew . |
| 24 | After positioning the wad in my cheek I sat around waiting for the hit , feeling smug with my new-found anthropological skills . |
| 25 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 26 | I ended up lying in the scrubby grass at the bottom of the hill , my knuckles white as I throttled the rabbit , swinging it in front of my face with its neck held on the thin black line of rubber tubing , now tied like a knot on a black string . |
| 27 | I ended up sitting by the lakeside and letting it all drift over me . ’ |
| 28 | Mrs Shelley Howard , senior biologist of the Severn-Trent Region said the officer cadets had been involved in strenuous exercises which involved repeatedly going under the water . |
| 29 | More '79 than '69 , no fake Hendrix-Stones-Byrds impressions , which seems somewhat daring in the current ultra-conservative climate . |
| 30 | More '79 than '69 , no fake Hendrix-Stones-Byrds impressions , which seems somewhat daring in the current ultra-conservative climate . |