Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is your boss still being sympathetic about your problems , or is he itching to get you back to the office ? ’ |
| 2 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 3 | ‘ Narcissist , ’ I said , wanting to get her back into the subject ; but she dropped it . |
| 4 | This is a similar fallacy to that of those in my profession who are constantly aspiring to bring everybody up to the average . |
| 5 | They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War . |
| 6 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 7 | Alina had assumed that Belov was taking her to another of the buildings , but it seemed now that he was going to lead her out of the settlement altogether . |
| 8 | cos I think we 're going to lock her up during the day |
| 9 | Well it 's gon na , mm , yeah , well it 's not pastry cos it 's flour I think we 've mixed it really , I know what you mean , we are going to tip it out of the ooh |
| 10 | Returning to London , and influenced by Ruskin and Octavia Hill , she went to work as a volunteer at a number of slum-housing projects around Marylebone , where her contributions ranged from carpentry to moral tutoring and advising the poor of the district on careers , and attempting to lead them away from the evils of alcohol . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 12 | It looked as though the Americans were going to sweep us aside in the early part of the afternoon at one point we had lost the match and were down in eight and up in only one . |
| 13 | I 'm going to fit it neatly into the neck of the one of the bottles . |
| 14 | Erm where I find I ca n't understand the regional accent I 'm going to give them back to the person who recorded them |
| 15 | Are you going to do it again for the seventy fifth ? |
| 16 | If there 've been a whole series of articles articles about health or about food or something like that , no way are they going to do anything else on the subject , unless it 's , it 's brought in a very fierce readers ' letters column or something like that , in which case they may be open for another slant . |
| 17 | Ah well sure but then the whole lot goes , but , but , but , but , but this was , this was the document , I mean the way this was put forward , this is going to last us through into the foreseeable future . |
| 18 | It 's not going to press you back in the seat on acceleration or break any speed records , but it 's far from sluggish — a 119mph top speed , in fact , and 0–62mph in 12.8 seconds . |
| 19 | But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell . |
| 20 | I am going to send you back to the Dark Realm of that other Ireland , and we will seal up the Gateways so that you and your creatures and your Lords of Evil will never be a threat to us again . |
| 21 | No afterwards she 's going to switch it on in the common room . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you going to keep me here on the doorstep ? ’ |
| 23 | If we 're going to keep it there on the patio , . |
| 24 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 25 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 26 | Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan . |
| 27 | Well I think I 'm , covered around the heating out , you ai n't going to get anything out of the juice in the pollution prevention basically . |
| 28 | We 've got to see the Oxford United that played at Blackburn , that played at Tottenham and that played at Chelsea , if they 're going to get anything out of the game . |
| 29 | Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’ |
| 30 | I 'm just going to drop her off at the hall . |