Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [v-ing] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate bathing her in the sink because the kitchen is draughty , especially since a chunk of the wall fell out a few weeks ago . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I like having him in the house , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember passing you in the corridor at the INCUBI:IS building in Helsinki . |
| 5 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you enjoy trapping me in the library ? ’ asked Mr Fractor . |
| 7 | She keeps poking me in the side with every step . |
| 8 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 9 | But you see doing them in the isolated spot |
| 10 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
| 11 | ‘ It 'll do , ’ he said , with his customary offhand modesty , as we stood admiring it in the church . |
| 12 | Agnes asked herself , and she thought : When we thrust out into the world just as we are , we first have to identify with that particular throw of the dice , with that accident organized by the divine computer : to get over our surprise that precisely this ( what we see facing us in the mirror ) is our self . |
| 13 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 14 | Therefore , in order to avoid panic attacks , they stop placing themselves in the situations in which they had previously experienced these feelings . |
| 15 | As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one . |
| 16 | Yes , he had been to the Tower himself several times but did not like it there and still less did he like exposing himself in the Waste . |
| 17 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 18 | He enjoyed educating himself in the things he wanted to know about . |
| 19 | ‘ I know it was a shock for the club but I would n't have gone if it meant leaving them in the lurch . |
| 20 | ‘ I know it was a shock for the club but I would n't have gone if it meant leaving them in the lurch . |