Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] they [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will your family still be here ? ’ asked Nina , glancing from Rachel to David and back to Rachel again , a slightly bemused look on her face as if she did n't really understand what was happening between them but wished she did . |
| 2 | She should have said , I do n't know where you got these things , but please put them away before somebody sees the sun glinting off them and assumes it 's me spying on the guests . |
| 3 | I keep looking at them and thinking I would n't buy one of those . |
| 4 | She may be portrayed with lions , bulls , birds , serpents , or other creatures , and she is shown dominating them , but rarely struggling with them or slaying them . |
| 5 | Suppose , for example , a particular spirit has chosen this lifetime to learn how to deal with the temptation to do deliberate wrong to others — whether by spreading malicious lies about them , stealing from them or causing them physical harm . |
| 6 | For him it would simply have been a matter of bringing the girl along , telling my mother she was coming with them and paying her handsomely for the hardship occasioned . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 8 | And you do n't realize that you are lost , and not only that , but you are griping when those who realize their condition call out to me and I 'm reaching to them and rescuing them , you are griping at that ! |
| 9 | As we grow up we model ourselves on our parents , identifying with them and imitating them . |
| 10 | And also , if she came in when I had the triplets it meant that erm you know , she was sitting talking to me when I wanted to be playing with them and taking them out and getting on with doing things with them . |
| 11 | Some mothers would avoid problems , distracting their child by talking to them and involving them in the shopping , while others would distract their child once they had started to be difficult . |
| 12 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 13 | Then she was pleased to see a girl , slightly older than Henrietta and Samantha , talking to them and offering them sweets . |
| 14 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |