Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
| 2 | OFF-LICENCES all over Ulster will be handing out free measures to customers next month — to help stop them getting sozzled on the sofa ! |
| 3 | The new day ward is named after the late Doris Field , whose money helped get it going . |
| 4 | More than 400 Wensleydale Smokebusters have pledged to help support someone wanting to give up cigarettes . |
| 5 | fun fair , you conclude in the kennels , you can meet your boy friend almost any where , but he thinks , you , lets see him dancing could , foot |
| 6 | ‘ He is the S.S.O. , and he did catch you breaking a rule . |
| 7 | Of course , you did make it clear that I had n't disturbed a lovers ’ tryst out there by the lake , so I 'm curious to know what did send you rushing through the grounds in such a state of agitation ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Ah — then somebody did send you running to the hills ? ’ |
| 9 | He had n't even had good manners enough to protest that he certainly did like her singing , as anyone else would surely have done , given such a direct challenge . |
| 10 | Erm yes he , I believe it th th that stage was when er he said we 'll put y we 'll pus we 'll find some clothes for you mate erm , I I do recollect P C going I think to the foot of the double bed or near to the base of the double bed where he found a pair of erm jeans and I do remember him checking the pockets erm and then helping or trying like put the jeans on on the man that was lying on the ground still handcuffed . |
| 11 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 12 | But the people of Jericho did see them coming and shut the gate , crying , ‘ Hippy convoy ! ’ |
| 13 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 14 | you know , and so I avoided her , but I would tell her , but if I saw her I would say Jenny I must admit I did see you going in The General but I did n't come out because I was so upset , but I , I wonder what she 's doing , cos she , I heard she 's got her own business , but I ca n't see that . |
| 15 | Er but obviously you know , the the the courage and the the strength of the the people who did keep it going , erm really has achieved a lot . |
| 16 | What they do see me doing is the school run , shopping , cooking their meals and running the household . |
| 17 | As to the evaluation of their individual skills of pupil management by members of the Senior Management Team , the Head of Department commented , ‘ we have never known them as teachers … but we do see them conducting assemblies ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Nothing , but I do appreciate you asking . |
| 19 | I did hear him moving around but when I woke up later neither he nor the redhead was to be seen . |
| 20 | ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away . |
| 21 | I should have said this earlier : I did appreciate you withdrawing your notice . ’ |
| 22 | Watching Smotty 's four-minute debut — missing an open goal whilst tying his bootlace , refusing to take a second-minute penalty until he had washed his shin pads in the puddle on the centre circle , then when he did take it hitting the corner flag — I could feel the supporters forcing my head further and further down on the block . |
| 23 | But apparently these fish do have one redeeming feature — they grow like the clappers . |
| 24 | No I did n't put it on last night , but I did leave me heating on , it clicks off at nine o'clock , but the house was warm |
| 25 | I wonder if that erm , really did revile you seeing a leading British politician shaking Saddam 's hand ? |
| 26 | ‘ Salesman did tell me sumpin' about a kid from here writing it but I forgot . |
| 27 | I do recall him throwing the ball into his own net at Anfield , and dropping a cross onto Gilzean 's head when playing for Wales v Scotland . |
| 28 | I do recall him saying , not in that connection ( which his good manners would have forbidden ) but with reference to the system of rationing in general , that it made one obsessively conscious of the working of one 's digestive organs . |
| 29 | As a matter of fact' — he frowned in concentration — ‘ I do recall her putting a matchbook in her handbag at one point and saying she would pass it on to Heather because she collected the things . |
| 30 | they do n't want to sit in the restaurant they very rarely do get them sitting in the restaurant I suppose to a certain extent other than the Sundays it 's just waste of space . |