Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I thought while he 's up there rather than me walking up and walking back , cos that would be too much exercise |
| 2 | ‘ I derive my enjoyment of food from its colour , texture and the combination on the plate when I eat ; so these are the things that I concentrate on when cooking for customers , ’ she explains . |
| 3 | I might suggest the other point , now I actually represent a city ward so I 'm sure I 'll hear the baying of the hounds that say why am I getting up and speaking . |
| 4 | I have nothing against them dressing up and riding around on horses but I do n't like the thought of anything being hunted down , man or beast . |
| 5 | Dr Robert Bradnock of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London said : ‘ Although the older generation strongly feel the pull of the old countries , I think they will put a lot of pressure on the young people to try and stop them rushing off and doing something which might escalate out of control . ’ |
| 6 | There were outbuildings and stables , all of them run down and needing money spent ; or the bulldozer , Kevin decided . |
| 7 | And they were in this grotty council house now and they go back and they said and you saw them going back and saying look at the state of the garden . |
| 8 | He hardly knew the people in his own house , only to exchange a casual greeting if he met them going out or coming in . |
| 9 | It started me going out and meeting people . |
| 10 | And this Mr was so taken aback , by me going in and asking for a job , and they 'd always advertised in the paper before , that he said , Well , she must want work if she 's gone after it . |
| 11 | Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome . |
| 12 | Oh are you , no I meant , are you going out or staying in ? |
| 13 | But there 's nothing to stop you , if you take it out on terms , there 's absolutely nothing to stop you coming in and paying , as long as you pay before July , or by July you get |
| 14 | I do n't want you coming back and telling me that what we need is more data . |
| 15 | She helps out when lip-reading proves difficult . |
| 16 | Yep … thanks Chappie … you helped pull us back into the big time and gave us a lot of enjoyment ( even when you fell over when trying to control the ball : - ) . |
| 17 | It 's just a matter of hoarding the tokens as you go along and exchanging them for a discount on your Enterprise 89/90 holiday . |
| 18 | Yeah you know what I 've done , it 's that er thing there well before I had it I used to put them on floor at side of ashtray , and now I leave it on settee and you know when I put me legs up , you know when you move over and watching telly ? |
| 19 | She was speaking with the usual tone of insincere humility that she puts on when talking about human qualities that Intelloids lack . |
| 20 | W when you were covering P C were you sitting down or standing up ? |
| 21 | She pointed out that smacking is particularly problematic for childminders who are often alone with a child . |
| 22 | She pointed out that adding sales from stores outside London ‘ could be a killer ’ , since the provinces were so much slower to react to new trends . |
| 23 | ‘ Failure to act before April 5 may result in you missing out and paying more tax than you need to . ’ |
| 24 | Even if I can get rid of the the tour operators erm or put somebody like onto because we got up and running now and I have n't got anyone to deal with it |
| 25 | I suppose you may say : ‘ Why should I be more green ’ ? and what I say to that is : ‘ I do n't know what the reason is for you but I do know that for me it 's about showing compassion for the planet we live on and trying to hand on as much beauty and good-will as we possibly can to future generations ; while improving our own quality of life . |
| 26 | These baby universes are so small that one would not notice them joining on or branching off . |
| 27 | To me , sexuality is romance and love and poetry and beauty , not picking somebody up on the street and using each other then telling them to fuck off and burning them with a cigarette . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's always the case of black people having to go mainstream to be accepted , instead of us doing our shit how we wan na do it and them coming over and taking a look , ’ says Roger D. ‘ We 're doing it for ourselves now . |
| 29 | And if you start to talk about me giving up and coming home with you , it ends right there . ’ |
| 30 | And they were fitting in their own until they got up and running . |