Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men found hay smouldering and tried to kick it out . |
| 2 | Until we collected the bread they kept returning and started to use it . |
| 3 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 4 | And I was holding myself back , tha tha , Paul was looking and trying to make me laugh ! |
| 5 | cos she keeps saying to me oh when you have that bloody tank she keeps nagging and nagging to have it . |
| 6 | Satan stopped circling and swung to face him , head low , teeth bared , his volcanic anger rumbling deep in his throat . |
| 7 | Mother and daughter went into a sharp slanging match , with Walter fussing and trying to stop them . |
| 8 | MacIver denies assaulting and abducting a 46-year-old Ross-shire man , Donald Beaton , while acting with others , by hooding , binding and threatening to shoot him and robbing him of his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs . |
| 9 | Emily and Mungo left what they were eating and rushed to join him . |
| 10 | He did not want to be caught at all , and although Mildred told him where they were going and tried to soothe him , he struggled madly and looked at her with great suspicion . |
| 11 | Well if I 'd have got to see him he might have said something , but I do n't like going and saying do you want me again now or owt you know ? |
| 12 | He has a way of speaking that seems to turn them all into engines , which , in terms of simple physics , is what they are . |
| 13 | He then left the pub , but police went to the house where he was staying and tried to persuade him to come out . |
| 14 | Melissa , struggling to follow the staccato bursts of speech that punctuated their intake of food , was so fascinated by their mannerisms that more than once she lost the thread of what they were saying and had to beg them to speak more slowly , which they did with great good humour and shrieks of tinny laughter . |
| 15 | Uzzell saw the ball approaching and ran to meet it . |
| 16 | She saw him coming and intended to give him a wide berth . |
| 17 | The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets : |
| 18 | If you step too far to the side , the opponent will see what you are doing and twist to face you . |
| 19 | ‘ He was training last week and two little lads came in the gym , and immediately Eubank stopped what he was doing and started to teach them how to box — you 've no idea just how much he loves being a champion . ’ |
| 20 | Soon , very soon , the classroom empties , only Heather and a coupla girls left , and Darren , who 's reading and has forgotten he 's supposed to be going home . |
| 21 | continue to jog people 's memory to actually get collecting and get sending it to you . |
| 22 | He reached behind him , lifted the pint of porter he had been drinking and began to sip it , making no effort to move . |
| 23 | The boy genius had been singularly unforthcoming and had told her no more regarding his revolutionary schemes . |
| 24 | No one can doubt that it is far better to aim to prevent job problems arising than to try to cure them by means of a law suit . |
| 25 | It was n't the sight of Michael Banks falling that had set her off . |
| 26 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 27 | Wayne was home , and the two dogs were barking and scrambling to greet him . |
| 28 | One day Hugh came into the bathroom while Myra was washing and offered to give her a present if she would give him a hug and a kiss . |
| 29 | The place had n't filled up yet but she noticed that the boys were congregating at the end of the hall beneath the balcony and on the left hand side while the girls were spread between the tables and chairs on the opposite wall , chatting and giggling and trying to pretend they were not waiting to be asked to dance . |
| 30 | But by the time the dancing stopped in the early hours of Sunday , ninety-six arrests had been made — sixty-five for the possession of illegal drugs , twenty-six for supplying or intending to supply them . |