Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Th they wo n't pay for them to go swimming |
| 2 | Erm it seems to me that the emphasis has changed slightly in the representations being made by the West Yorkshire authorities and that they 're now saying that it 's much more difficult for them to accommodate housing developments within their own er districts . |
| 3 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 4 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 5 | Leaving me to continue cleaning up , my husband climbed the ladder into the roof space to see what the situation was there . |
| 6 | It was a modest success in its own way , enabling me to risk becoming a full-time freelance , and I shall always be grateful for that . |
| 7 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 8 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 9 | On that occasion , much of the room was in darkness , and the two gentlemen were sitting side by side midway down the table — it being much too broad to allow them to sit facing one another — within the pool of light cast by the candles on the table and the crackling hearth opposite . |
| 10 | Perhaps our HCI Rep will persuade me to go sailing . |
| 11 | Any time now he 's going to ask me to go roller-skating . |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't expect me to go hefting bowls of boiling water . |
| 13 | You ca n't really expect me to go fishing about underneath your bed if I do n't even know what I might find under it , now can you ? ’ |
| 14 | Why do you always force me to go chasing after you ? ’ |
| 15 | You want me to go jumping out of Dorniers again at five thousand feet in the dark like last time over Ireland and you try to hand me that kind of bollocks . ’ |
| 16 | But you did n't expect me to go rummaging around in Paula 's diary , did you ? ’ |
| 17 | " It 's just that it 's all very well to talk about his responsibility and all that — nobody thinks how awful it would be for me to go crawling to him wailing , I 'm in tro-uble ? |
| 18 | Sometimes she would ask me to go blackberrying with her or , as she would say , to open a tin of tangerines with her . |
| 19 | It may well be that some of them regret having made the decision . |
| 20 | A range of pine furniture ready for me to paint according to your needs . |
| 21 | None of them got icing on today . |
| 22 | Their proud father had them painted wearing their new finery . |
| 23 | Do they mean none transferable from person to person or from book to book , erm , for everything it does n't say and if they know , both of them stopped sending out those |
| 24 | When friends asked me out I had to turn them down and one or two of them stopped calling round . |
| 25 | Before dawn Harry had set them to work collecting up any combustible material they could find ; pieces of shattered furniture , empty ammunition cases , even books . |
| 26 | if the Robemaker had left any Sentry Spells , then surely this was the moment for them to come rearing out to challenge the intruders . |
| 27 | Kassin , Ellsworth and Smith ( 1989 ) found that 70% of a sample of 63 experts felt that this phenomenon is reliable enough for psychologists to present in court-room testimony — the experts in this study generally had a PhD in psychology and over half of them reported having actually testified about eyewitness testimony . |
| 28 | ‘ If one of them starts behaving out of character , I know that something 's upsetting them . |
| 29 | Then they waited patiently for me to try hitting one . |
| 30 | It simply refers to all the things the retailer does to look after the customers — the things that make them enjoy visiting that shop or store . |