Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 84 for 2 , Mr Beesley , ’ I would shout as I passed him snoozing in the sun beneath the gangling wisteria . |
| 2 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |
| 3 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 4 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 5 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 6 | Then I thought I heard something moving in the trees — just behind one big tree . |
| 7 | More rarely , I watched them diving in the sea for sea urchins or other easy prey . |
| 8 | The wind had blown some dead leaves through the door into the church , and I watched them dancing in the sunlight near the grave . |
| 9 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 10 | I kept my eyes open over the next few days and although I saw her sitting in the window she never appeared outside . |
| 11 | ‘ He put his arm through the partition and I saw something glinting in the darkness . |
| 12 | Rosa scandens , ‘ a wild , woody , climbing rose , with a shining evergreen Myrtle leaf , a white sweet-scented flower and small , round prickly fruit ’ , was , he said , found in woods near Florence by Signor Micheli who sent it to Dr Boerhaave of Leyden , ‘ in whose curious garden I saw it growing in the year 1727 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I could n't believe my eyes , Leonora , when I saw you standing in the middle of the room down there . |
| 14 | I thought I saw someone moving in the front room . |
| 15 | cos I had it running in the kitchen while we were cooking tea last night and Sue came in and goes a real big fart , and goes oh I have n't been able to fart all week , she says ! |
| 16 | Whereas love is the accelerator which gets us moving , fear is the brake which prevents us going in the wrong direction . |
| 17 | Later this evening , about 11 p.m. , the Germans mounted a bombardment of our positions which convinced us sheltering in the slit trenches that the enemy were still in front of us in strength and were telling us that they intended to stay there . |
| 18 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 19 | The first time she found us chatting in the yard she rushed up and dragged me away . |
| 20 | On the morning she saw him standing in the body of the church , dark as a gypsy in his morning suit . |
| 21 | When you do it jumping in the hall you 'll have to go , we 'll have you first number one , two , three , four , five |
| 22 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 23 | He brought the coffee to her , and she drank it sitting in the bath . |
| 24 | How do you find it living in the flats compared with anywhere else you 've lived ? |
| 25 | She missed her footing in the end and stepped into a puddle about two inches deep . |
| 26 | ‘ We found her sitting in the loo lighting up . ’ |
| 27 | The force knows exactly how much harder it has to pull on the big one to keep it going in the same circle . |
| 28 | We saw oh , we saw you playing in the pa in police precinct yesterday . |
| 29 | Slippy Block — Standing on this one sends you sliding in the direction of the pointers . |
| 30 | When they entered his rooms , in answer to his hearty ‘ Come in ! ’ they found him sitting in the broken armchair , surrounded by books , his feet comfortably supported by a small wooden stool . |