Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 2 | Q : I am writing to you after reading the article ‘ Upgrading your Hard Disk ’ in the June 1992 issue . |
| 3 | ‘ We are going by you without fighting if you will let us , but we are going by you anyhow . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We are going by you without fighting if you will let us ’ , Joseph warned , ‘ but we are going by you anyhow ’ . |
| 5 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 6 | These were the sort of respondents who nicknamed the fieldworker ‘ Tell her Nothin ’ and ‘ Nosebag ’ , and tried to assert informal checks on colleagues who were conversing with her by reminding them of the notepad and that she ‘ writes everything down ’ . |
| 7 | The water sprays off him that his mother 's screaming at him for soaking us all . |
| 8 | Mr Stanforth was not entirely what she had expected , but neither , she deduced from the covert glances he was using upon her like measuring instruments , was she quite matching up to his preconceived picture of her . |
| 9 | He was looking at her with frowning concentration . |
| 10 | Miss Lucchesi was talking to me about fingering . " |