Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These indications of the importance of small firm production and the extent of subcontracting make it vital to recognize the place of a differentiated structure of production in assessing the causes of Japan 's rapid economic growth . |
| 2 | ‘ Because nobody 's goin' to treat me as kind as you do . ’ |
| 3 | We goin' pick them like they ripe avocados . ’ |
| 4 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 5 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 6 | Rolled in about five minutes ago demanding to see you . |
| 7 | He pulled away , but Ruth 's hand closed desperately , not daring to lose him again . |
| 8 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 9 | Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact . |
| 10 | More members are needed for this class which is organised in conjunction with the Teachers ' Training Course and is helping to support it . |
| 11 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 12 | Freud ignored the more likely ‘ social ’ hypothesis for feminine dissatisfaction , preferring to ascribe it to a biologically based female nature . |
| 13 | ‘ No-one 's goin' to search me , it ai n't decent , I 'm a respectable girl and nor ai n't I a thief — oh ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We 're really goin' to miss you both , we really are … . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 're enjoying seeing me laid low , are n't you ? ’ she snapped testily . |
| 16 | Ah 'm not goin' to shop ye ! ’ |
| 17 | There are two types of Head Hugger available — the 0–9 month variety which fits all 0–9 month car seats , and the Universal Head Hugger , which fits all car seats , using velcro fastening to secure it into position . |
| 18 | We are part way through a randomised multi-centre control trial of rehabilitation and the majority of physicians collaborating say they have insufficient time to review all their patients after discharge , after this aggressive therapy of 3 or 4 days in hospital . |
| 19 | Because tonight he would punish Detective Lieutenant Curtis for daring to offend him . |
| 20 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 21 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 22 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 23 | Probably just checking to see we were O.K. Now it all made sense and I thought back to all the others who had suddenly stopped visiting : Cathy , Victoria , Jean . |
| 24 | In the afternoons fishermen in small skiffs laid nets along the low island of reeds which lay between us and the main channel , returning to gather them at night . |
| 25 | One can imagine a Soviet general fuming to see it around her neck . |
| 26 | Everybody 's just dying to see her ’ |
| 27 | The film we 're going to see is Flatliners , and Denice tells us she 's been dying to see it for ages . |
| 28 | Nothing for the archives and nothing that could be sold off , this bric-a-brac had obviously been stored against the possibility of some surviving and previously untraced relative appearing to claim it . |
| 29 | It was a pity Wallace got injured when he did as I thought they were begining to hit it off together . |
| 30 | He found himself aching to see her . |