Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do enjoy our football and we enjoy winning . |
| 2 | ‘ I play football and I like watching it . |
| 3 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 4 | A groan was his reply and he began kissing her again , this time letting his lips travel down her throat towards the open neck of her blouse and leaving a hot trail of sensation in his wake . |
| 5 | Her face was white with fear and she kept saying , almost whispering : ‘ Quick , quick , get out of here , get out of here . |
| 6 | A driftwood fire blazed in the grate and we sat warming ourselves as the flames leapt . |
| 7 | Her hand went to her mouth and she stopped singing . |
| 8 | My grass roots were general practice and I liked talking to people and solving problems , but as you get promoted within a firm you lose that personal contact . |
| 9 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 10 | You , erm , I use buses and cars and I use a bike as well , er , er I think that , we used to have a car and I stopped using it , I used it , we had it when the kids were small and I found it really good for getting them around and it really was necessary to young mothers but their big now and I do n't have to chauffeur . |
| 11 | Doing about sixty , seventy , normal speed , in hurry to get somewhere and er I I just sat there and erm all of a sudden I I thought I was miles past this other car and I started going in , just to let him go past , obviously and he 's I I did n't realise this other car was keeping up with me and I 've gone towards it and I thought sh I 'd looked in my mirror shit it 's still there ! |
| 12 | Roddick did not offer any resistance , because at the time she was a frustrated actress and she felt teaching English and history to a class of forty kids at a local secondary school was the next best thing to acting . |
| 13 | Oh the story of this particular one is that it er er they tried to make out that the erm that the the the the shark has actually got something against the human beings on this boat and it keeps chasing them . |
| 14 | They were both then hauled through the treacherous water to the boat , but while paddling for the shore , the current seized the boat and it capsized throwing everyone into the water . |
| 15 | ‘ That bookshop experience really helped when we set up Headline and I started running the UK sales force . |
| 16 | a book that 's lasting them a term and they start getting trouble and he gets you know messed about |
| 17 | Long suede gloves and a new handbag completed her ensemble and she stood waiting . |
| 18 | ‘ When you arrived in casualty last night you were covered with blood and they started hunting for the wounds and getting the blood transfusion supplies ready . |
| 19 | Parker 's face was a mask of blood and he kept brushing at his eye . |
| 20 | One had a hearing aid and she kept fiddling with it . |
| 21 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 22 | no , that 's a bad one , the er power supply to the machine , the lead it was , there was a break in the circuit and it kept going on and off , so actually I was switching it on right , it just was n't coming on , so she says oh use it by the battery cos its battery as well as electric |
| 23 | well I do n't know , I suppose they sort of well , they the same time paint work and they go thundering down the corridor and go charging in there and , oh back at training on there you know come on , come on we 've only got half an hour |
| 24 | ‘ Some of them have had the same experience , and here she 's in a familiar place doing familiar work and I think feeling closer to Whitey . ’ |
| 25 | It is simple enough for him to show that a boxing match takes place within a general totality of ‘ boxing ’ , which is itself only ever present in any individual incarnation , for as a game each match is both an individual bout and something conducted according to general rules and a specific social tradition . |
| 26 | It must be ten years since I went to the optician and I keep promising myself I will go when the opportunity presents itself , because I love to read . |
| 27 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 28 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 29 | I 'm not a social eater and I hate talking and eating at the same time . |
| 30 | Just build up of , erm I was talking to our Tom about nosebleeds , Alan was saying that his father used to be a lot like David and he used to get terrible headaches and it used to end up in a really bad nosebleed and he started giving blood regular and it stopped it . |