Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And I said no fucking way you 'll get any pictures of me having a bang ! |
| 32 | He 's taking the piss out of me pulling a rack through . |
| 33 | There 's a small black and white set , and I can see two people on it , with one of them waving a hand . |
| 34 | She saw him stop and slide an arm around Stark 's waist , carrying his companion towards the front door , both of them leaving a trail of blood behind . |
| 35 | with the thought of them using a saucepan . |
| 36 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |
| 37 | In 1831 and again in 1832 he launched hot-air balloons at local festivals , one of them flying a distance of more than four miles , but even at this time his goal was powered flight with fixed-wing aeroplanes . |
| 38 | Pages and serving women hastened through it , each of them bearing an item of outdoor clothing . |
| 39 | The two policemen in the doorway stared in at him , one of them taking a step closer , anxious to rescue their plain clothes colleague from Scott 's attack . |
| 40 | The other occupants of the room gradually moved across to the table , each of them taking a seat around it . |
| 41 | ‘ It would appear there is every chance of them maintaining a relationship in the future . ’ |
| 42 | He imagined a full-page , black and white photo of two barechested men ( their chests shaved ) , photographed in daylight , walking down the street , gazing squarely at the camera , holding hands , one of them holding an alsatian straining at a leather leash . |
| 43 | And when they would offer to no no they would n't they would have their own way of drying it in in their bags they would have another clean or or you would say clothes to put on but we never ever heard of them doing a washing . |
| 44 | The worms can only live in compostable material so there 's no fear of them making a bid for freedom and eating their way through the vegetable patch . |
| 45 | I ca n't see either of them making a commitment . |
| 46 | Finding themselves studying such very different subjects , and with each of them making a circle of new friends — none of whom had anything in common with the other 's friends — it was no wonder that Laura and Liz had begun to drift slowly apart . |
| 47 | She was about to find herself a seat when she caught sight of him , in conversation with a rather pretty dark young woman , both of them laughing a lot . |
| 48 | Right-wing rumblings of rebellion over the reshuffle have raised the prospect of them mounting a challenger to Mr Major 's leadership . |
| 49 | There is a badly eroded sculpted tympanum and Chrisme above the doorway , here supported by angels , and some splendid capitals in the interior , one of them showing an elephant ( at a guess ) with a tongue that reaches to the ground ; as well as candy-striped , cruciform piers . |
| 50 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 51 | The Messerschmitts were back on 24th. , four of them attacking a flight of patrolling Hurricanes over Imtarfa . |
| 52 | The boys had the use of a 25 metre pool , but the girls had to train over 19 metres , though that did n't prevent three of them winning a silver medal at the Olympics in Antwerp . |
| 53 | If 2 carriers have children , there 's a one in 4 chance their child will have normal blood cells , a one in 2 chance they 'll have children who also be carriers anda one in 4 chance of them having a sickle cell sufferer . |
| 54 | This was the ‘ Wallflower Waltz ’ number — in which the girls in the show , led by Maggie Smith who sang wistfully about none of them having a dancing partner , while the men on stage waltzed with sheets of chiffon floating down from the flies . |
| 55 | An even larger protest was held the following year when 10,000 people gathered , many of them climbing a staircase of straw bales built over the ten-foot high barbed wire fence around the site . |
| 56 | A friend of mine visiting a hospital saw an elderly man wandering around and crying . |
| 57 | We followed the tweed skirt into a kitchen where its owner motioned us to sit , in the manner of someone training a dog . |
| 58 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
| 59 | Our image of the typical newspaper reader in Britain has to be that of someone reading a tabloid , not a highbrow quality paper . |
| 60 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |