Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This is where I live and you 're running all over it like this and spoiling it . |
| 2 | you see it 's got no , they 're telling you this and telling you that , it 's them that 's doing this but they 're creating more food , food by , to create more food they 're bombarding all your food with chemicals you know all sorts you know |
| 3 | Is er , is Freud saying , is he just looking at this and saying I , I see a pattern here ? |
| 4 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 5 | The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight . |
| 6 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 7 | He presented a strong message to the newly-qualified chemists encouraging them to try to win the confidence of the lay public by admitting to things that go wrong and telling them what was being done about it . |
| 8 | That night she cried herself to sleep wondering where she had gone wrong and thinking she could not bear it if she never saw Edward again . |
| 9 | I 'd get a brand new keyboard and Dad would have to make do with an old car — one that was always going wrong and making him embarrassed in front of his friends . |
| 10 | Try folding a VDU in half and stuffing it in your pocket . |
| 11 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 12 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 13 | The next morning Lorne filmed me cutting the model free and lashing it down again , facing forwards . |
| 14 | The only cookery books at Greystones were yellowing volumes from the twenties and thirties , smelling of damp and telling you how to make spotted dick or pickle eggs in isinglass . |
| 15 | So I wish you and your family a particularly enjoyable festive season and look forward to working with you for a successful 1993 and making it a year that will bring real growth . |
| 16 | Rune was fuelling her fantasies , playing a descant to her theme , somehow sensing her rhythm , exciting and tormenting her . |
| 17 | I think he 's trying to be sensible and doing it all wrong . ’ |
| 18 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 19 | Try putting a little badge on the front of a top and placing it face down . |
| 20 | He said Daphne even though she is married now I am willing to forget the bad talks that were going around about him being foolish and wanting her back . |
| 21 | People perceive the world as though it were guiding and constraining them . |
| 22 | It is here that your values and ideas about preparing children ( i.e. guiding and training them ) for life need to be worked out clearly and communicated to your youngster in the form of reasons . |
| 23 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 24 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 25 | The women and children take charge of the cattle 's night-time arrangements , gently guiding and scolding them . |
| 26 | The schoolmaster then spent an endless period fussily sorting out his things — extracting a folded newspaper and a small bag of plums from his case , arranging the case on the rack , examining the seat minutely for anything unpleasant and giving it a brush with the back of his hand , folding his jacket and his jumper with ritualistic care , adjusting the window in consultation with the lady , but without reference to me or to the young Swede , getting his case down again for some forgotten item , checking his hankie , readjusting the window . |
| 27 | His work on this topic is experimental and consists of introducing a series of animals to one another and watching them as they ‘ convene ’ a group in a field enclosure . |
| 28 | Cardiff took another torch from the wooden plinth as they descended the stairs into the basement , shoving it into his jacket pocket ; taking another and switching it on as they descended . |
| 29 | This involved focusing on medium-sized towns one alter another and blitzing them with publicity . |
| 30 | In case we do have a hard winter however , it might be worth potting up a few and over-wintering them , if you have n't already saved some of last year 's generously produced and well-ripened seed . |