Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is your boss still being sympathetic about your problems , or is he itching to get you back to the office ? ’ |
| 2 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 3 | ‘ Narcissist , ’ I said , wanting to get her back into the subject ; but she dropped it . |
| 4 | This is a similar fallacy to that of those in my profession who are constantly aspiring to bring everybody up to the average . |
| 5 | They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War . |
| 6 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 7 | Alina had assumed that Belov was taking her to another of the buildings , but it seemed now that he was going to lead her out of the settlement altogether . |
| 8 | cos I think we 're going to lock her up during the day |
| 9 | Well it 's gon na , mm , yeah , well it 's not pastry cos it 's flour I think we 've mixed it really , I know what you mean , we are going to tip it out of the ooh |
| 10 | Erm where I find I ca n't understand the regional accent I 'm going to give them back to the person who recorded them |
| 11 | Ah well sure but then the whole lot goes , but , but , but , but , but this was , this was the document , I mean the way this was put forward , this is going to last us through into the foreseeable future . |
| 12 | It 's not going to press you back in the seat on acceleration or break any speed records , but it 's far from sluggish — a 119mph top speed , in fact , and 0–62mph in 12.8 seconds . |
| 13 | But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell . |
| 14 | I am going to send you back to the Dark Realm of that other Ireland , and we will seal up the Gateways so that you and your creatures and your Lords of Evil will never be a threat to us again . |
| 15 | No afterwards she 's going to switch it on in the common room . |
| 16 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 17 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 18 | Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan . |
| 19 | Well I think I 'm , covered around the heating out , you ai n't going to get anything out of the juice in the pollution prevention basically . |
| 20 | We 've got to see the Oxford United that played at Blackburn , that played at Tottenham and that played at Chelsea , if they 're going to get anything out of the game . |
| 21 | Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’ |
| 22 | I 'm just going to drop her off at the hall . |
| 23 | ‘ Believe it or not , my responsibility to my daughter rated higher in my mind than going to seek you out at the hotel . ’ |
| 24 | If I was n't able to admit it to some old woman I 'd never see again and who did n't matter a scrap to me , how was I going to face it out for the rest of my life ? |
| 25 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 26 | The prisoners were taken to the riverside , where a boat was waiting to take them on to the prison-ship . |
| 27 | So I hunted him and smashed his face , and I was going to take him back to the prison-ship , so that he would n't have the pleasure of being free , when the soldiers caught us . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm going to take you round to the studio , Midge . |
| 29 | He cuffed the woman on the head , attempting to drag her back into the doorway . |
| 30 | I think he 's at the bottom of a bog with a hole in his head and they 're waiting to scoop her up at the right moment . |