Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine the situation where employers are now obliged to notify employee members of that rise in contribution and also reminding them that they have the right to withdraw their authorization . |
| 2 | He does n't like seeing me because it makes him remember my mother . |
| 3 | Whit 's out , he 's phoning me when he gets back . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to know what she was like , and I want to clear up some questions which have been puzzling me and which do n't appear on the record . ’ |
| 5 | A little crowd was encouraging them while they performed what somebody told me was a tango . |
| 6 | I find it very disturbing and unwelcome to have you go touching me as you do . |
| 7 | I know , cockroach 's insect , I do n't use those cos they say colours make children go hyperactive , used to stop using them when we had Geoffrey , cos he always used to go berserk |
| 8 | The computer industry has only recently realised that , on the whole , ordinary people do not like computers and are only comfortable using them when they do not know they are doing so . |
| 9 | Muddy Waters was using them when I started working with him . |
| 10 | ’ I 'm using them because we work so well together not for their names . |
| 11 | Erm yeah so I mean that 's generally the way to go so I th I think you know it 's probably worth working away towards a , a more specific set of questions that you might want to ask and , and think of ways of administering them so you get some sort of , you know , numerical information in the end . |
| 12 | At the same time , he took great trouble over the team 's welfare , even to the extent of helping them when they signed their contracts . |
| 13 | She was n't going to risk annoying them as she had about the color of the paint . |
| 14 | They have no difficulty in imagining , for example , that there are thousands of people at large in Britain who are in the habit of aborting babies specifically for the purpose of eating them and they argue , ingeniously , that the lack of forensic evidence of satanic abuse can itself be read as proof of the existence of Satan . |
| 15 | Did I do it for her or to release the frustration that 's been eating me since I left Deptford ? |
| 16 | Yeah they were building them when we got there were n't they ? |
| 17 | Slave masters strode through the crowds of men and women whipping them if they slowed down or showed any interest in the travellers . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I am very grateful to Wedgwood for sponsoring me and I have found the course work to be very valuable in relation to my job . |
| 19 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 20 | If the floor needs washing , okay , I wo n't wash it , but I know it needs washing and it 'll go on nagging me until I 've washed it — so you ca n't win really . |
| 21 | It 's terrible but I find I do exactly the same with my children now : they come in from school and everything is dropped and I say ‘ pick them up ’ and I try to stop nagging them because I remember how much I hated it . |
| 22 | The package also comes with a data compression utility that works ‘ on the fly ’ so that it expands your files while they are being used , before re-shrinking them once you have finished using them . |
| 23 | Books were obviously supernumerary , and he began jettisoning them until he got down to those two which every guest on ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ is furnished with as a bare , civilised minimum : the Bible and Shakespeare . |
| 24 | There was a new peg in place and Martin tied onto it , protecting me as I downclimbed . |
| 25 | For the international people there are civil laws , by which they companies have to provide what we call indemnities for the person who works and these indemnities go according to certain formulas , which is known by everybody , and it 's in a way protecting them after they leave . |
| 26 | I 'll be hassling them when I get there … believe me ! ! ! |
| 27 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |
| 28 | In Robb v Green [ 1895 ] 2 QB 315 the defendant , employed by the plaintiff as the manager of his business , surreptitiously copied from the plaintiff 's order book a list of names and addresses of customers with the intention of soliciting them after he had left employment and had set up a similar business on his own . |
| 29 | He had sublet part of his house to a married daughter , and would also play with his grandchildren , ‘ amusing them when they come back from school ’ . |
| 30 | Faye lay back again and closed her eyes for a moment , opening them as she heard the rustle of paper . |