Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had mine in kitchen and I kept knocking it over every time I opened up |
| 2 | and I keep forgetting mine on the back windowsill |
| 3 | Your brother 's death left you heiress to Tracy Castle , and I intend taking it for the King . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’ |
| 5 | They were exhausted going into the singles and I hated banging them in there for every match . |
| 6 | And I suggested charging them like sixty pounds for the three nights . |
| 7 | alcoholic they abilitating teaching them to , to live again and , and getting into the community , helping them to shop and you know helping them to be self sufficient . |
| 8 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 9 | But if a file comes up that looks like Sarah 's file , and you fancy copying it to that floppy you can say yes and it 'll copy it on there . |
| 10 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 11 | Holly asked Rain whether Sniffy had named names yet and she admitted getting nothing from him . |
| 12 | Sarah had become aware of her looks , which were improving daily , and she began using them to her advantage . |
| 13 | We saw the Luftwaffe in full strength that day and they kept hitting us with all they had . |
| 14 | And that 's when you really start getting problems and they start treating something as a continuous function , and it 's not . |
| 15 | Almost all children have tantrums , and they start having them at about the same age — somewhere between 20–30 months . |
| 16 | This was an original he was very proud of this and he kept telling us about this . |
| 17 | They were both then hauled through the treacherous water to the boat , but while paddling for the shore , the current seized the boat and it capsized throwing everyone into the water . |