Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 2 | I worry about what my neighbours might think , seeing me dumping three or four black bin-liners outside when they know I 'm living alone . |
| 3 | But he was glad he 'd been able to fend off too many probing journalistic questions about her ; he did n't want them publishing any comments about her at this stage , that was sure . |
| 4 | And he did n't want them saying that . |
| 5 | That got me doing some serious thinking . |
| 6 | I think about phoning her mobile but she hates me doing that so I do n't . |
| 7 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 8 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 9 | Farmers say that this month 's heavy rain has stopped them harvesting much of their wheat . |
| 10 | Could it have stopped them getting this bad ? |
| 11 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 12 | I jus ' do n't want 'er servin' more than need be , that 's all . ’ |
| 13 | it 's completely anonymous number you know it 's only to be on that , said I 'll wipe it off then , you bloody well wo n't , I think he wants to tell people before he can say very wrong , could say something personal , if it was personal , no longer it , no you were n't personal to you , but I 'm quite happy to arrange it if you wish , no , no , no , no , no , , I should n't have to tell you not to take my points in full , there we go it 's driving me doing that in the factory having without people 's permission , I want to know , I ask permission if I 'd er wanted to as a without being asked to do it , I would of gone and seen personnel and asked , I would not of dreamed of doing it in a work 's situation unless I was asked , say anything personal I 'd turned it off not that it , apart from me and Stuart |
| 14 | It is always dangerously easy to write superficially about human relationships , particularly this one of the mother and daughter living together in old age , picturing them enjoying endless winter evenings by the fire , with never a cross word , and long summer afternoons in a garden of roses , sitting in deckchairs on a lawn that never needs mowing . |
| 15 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 16 | Accountants are among the most sophisticated users of spreadsheet models , so it 's no surprise to find them pioneering new products . |
| 17 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 18 | You would n't catch me using one of them . |
| 19 | You would n't catch me doing that now . |
| 20 | I think of that , you would n't catch me doing that in the morning |
| 21 | ( Not that you 'd ever catch me doing any of it with that treacherous corporate stooge again . |
| 22 | You may have suspected something when you caught me using that heavenly perfume you bought for Mummy 's birthday . |
| 23 | You may have caught me doing this some of you may have have noticed that I try to force meself not to and it 's something to remember . |
| 24 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 25 | But sometimes we are going to find ourselves facing those who thrive on fear , sweat , blood and adrenalin — people to whom fighting is a way of life . |
| 26 | He had never thought to find himself discussing such a thing with a single young woman , but he had heard of American girls ' frankness , and he supposed that this was a sample of it . |
| 27 | He was to find himself repeating this often as the days went by . |
| 28 | He was aware of nothing more until he opened his eyes some time later to find himself lying naked on a sheet of tarpaulin in the backyard . |
| 29 | Whipping round , he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights . |
| 30 | As the pace began to quicken and the complicated threads of the chant began to rise Rincewind found himself watching fascinated . |