Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I kept on listening to the show . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I carry on walking down the street , careful not to bump into people so I do n't fall over again . |
| 10 | I carry on talking with the same chattiness and speed that got Jane Austen 's heroines into trouble . |
| 11 | Chris , Nick and I carried on working under the umbrella of the Friends of John McCarthy . |
| 12 | I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in . |
| 13 | I sat around picking over the few facts I knew . |
| 14 | After positioning the wad in my cheek I sat around waiting for the hit , feeling smug with my new-found anthropological skills . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I ended up sitting by the lakeside and letting it all drift over me . ’ |
| 18 | He was a good mathematical teacher and he wrote a number of text-books , some of which went on selling into the 198os . |
| 19 | But everyone ends up hiding under the sheets , not too terrified , and a philosophical bear lollops back along the beach to his cave . |
| 20 | I hope she goes on crying until the time comes for them to wrap a shroud round her . " |
| 21 | But it was Portsmouth who came out firing in the second half . |
| 22 | did you carry on working at the same place ? |
| 23 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 24 | She started out walking along the main drag in the Miraflores commercial district , Avenue Larco , with a small case strapped to her neck , hawking cigarettes and chocolates . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , the reports and test results we issue are not all welcomed by manufacturers but there really is only a tiny percentage who end up carping about the magazine . ’ |
| 26 | They just let you go on buying on the never-never . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's always tea-time here , and you go on moving round the table . |
| 28 | ‘ If you go on standing in the way any longer I 'll take you to court . ’ |
| 29 | Kate felt her cheeks tinge once more with pink as she went on listening to the good-natured chaff Mike Booker was taking on her behalf . |
| 30 | When Glass started his studies , Boulanger was 75 and she went on teaching until the age of 92 . |