Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the easiest way of getting your firewood — cut the trees at the edge of the forest and send them rolling down to the bottom . |
| 2 | If not , place it facing out into the living space . |
| 3 | " Perhaps I should have let that precious mother of yours catch you sneaking back into the house . " |
| 4 | Now imagine it flying away into the distance and think about where it is going . |
| 5 | How stop myself swinging down through the branches to help unload her little car ? |
| 6 | The thought of the pigeon sitting alone in its Bible-nest inside the big wheel , with black shadows all around and no one to talk to , set me scurrying off like the returning hunter . |
| 7 | Every day they took us out and set us crawling all over the tube from outside , scraping the micrometeorite dust off the glass . |
| 8 | ‘ Instead I find myself acting also in the capacity of lady 's maid and sick-nurse , for neither of which occupations have I the least experience . |
| 9 | John Thaw 's Inspector has lately become virtually paralysed by his pain and disgust , and his psychological travails have tended to hijack the plots — I find myself watching mainly for the architecture and the music . |
| 10 | Now it 's glossy cream and pale blue and beautiful , but I find myself looking out of the window at the broken slats of the fence between our house and the next , and understanding very well why canals and tulips and windmills and clear blue Dutch skies had been important to the woman who had stood in that kitchen before me . |
| 11 | ‘ I find myself weeping alone after the service . ’ |
| 12 | When I 'm at a crossroads , if I find myself going back to the same place I had a happy encounter , I deliberately go the other way , so I do n't become a slave to habit . |
| 13 | Further inland , you find yourself climbing on to the moors , which are another haven for wildlife . |
| 14 | keep you ticking over for the moment |
| 15 | I mean it going back to the days I think it was Professor Jode , it depends what you mean by class . |
| 16 | But he was well liked , and his colleagues , rather than see him lose his job , would roll the old man into a hollow , covering him with heather to keep out the damp , and leave him sleeping soundly until the end of the day . |
| 17 | I take hold of the branch and pull it ripping out of the grass and ferns . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ You miss it coming up to the time , but I made up my mind some time ago to call it quits . |
| 19 | Hitch could hear the men shouting now , see them gesticulating madly towards The Abbott in an effort to divert it from what appeared to be a collision course . |
| 20 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
| 21 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
| 22 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 23 | A high-speed intellectual roller-coaster ride quite likely to toss you out of the car at the turn of the next page — or at best have you clinging on by the fingernails . |
| 24 | Notice something coming out of the undergrowth towards you . |
| 25 | And I often see her walking past with the children on the way to pick up others from the school . |
| 26 | Like I see her standing up in the toilet and I thought your hair looks nice in n it ? |
| 27 | And as soon as I read the name I see her standing there in the witness box , self-contained , precise , unknowable . |
| 28 | I always see him riding about up the Steven there he 's always up there I know when I used to work for it was always Steve who used to be riding to this farm , riding to that farm , checking on this , checking on that and taking the wages round that sort of thing . |
| 29 | Perhaps you can make another batch when we see him coming down from the moor-edge , ’ she suggested to her mother . |
| 30 | Now I see him coming back in the middle of the afternoon , with , I hope , a railway sandwich or two inside him , apparently not in the least put out at being employed as a busboy . |