Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to go losing you in here . ’ |
| 2 | Though she would have been more comfortable beside him , with her back against the tree , she did n't want to risk touching him . |
| 3 | I wish now I had sent it on with the rest of the clothes but I did n't want to risk crushing it . ’ |
| 4 | I 've had a package at long last er back from EARS er but I have n't actually erm put it onto the computer yet because it 's erm it 's proving a bit temperamental at the moment and I did n't want to risk overloading it with with yet another er software package u until I 've had it seen to . |
| 5 | He 's making it sound as if I was stretched on a couch , locked in a room with a ‘ Do not disturb ’ sign on the door while Sir Matt , the doc and a priest I have certainly never met , got to work straightening me out , socially , medically and religiously . |
| 6 | ‘ If you want to go swimming you can do it for less than £800 a day . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received urging him to take new action to combat racist attacks . |
| 8 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 9 | If you want to risk killing me , that 's fine , but you 're going to have to kill the conductor and the other passengers in this carriage , too . |
| 10 | I may be wrong , but I suspect that deep down , Monica , who is remarkably mature in many ways for her age , has enjoyed dangling us on a string , not only over the Wimbledon issue but also over her last minute non appearance at the Federation Cup and all the mutterings of official disapproval which that caused . |
| 11 | G M B employees would need training enabling them to become experts in this field . |
| 12 | To his credit he has avoided giving us familiar images of Everest , Machhapuchhare and the like , and instead has chosen to be more creative in his choice of viewpoints , angles and lighting . |
| 13 | But when I tried to avoid giving them he ordered me to tell him what was up . |
| 14 | The man who had endured great mental and physical pain always , when in command of himself , tried to avoid inflicting it on others . |
| 15 | You want to avoid getting them in the wrong order or dropping them , so number them in the top corner , and link them together with a tag . |
| 16 | During that period , we want to do all we can to reduce it , especially among young people , and we want to avoid targeting them in advertising . |
| 17 | She wants to keep kissing him and he do n't like it . |
| 18 | I think he just wants to keep putting it off ; he might be frightened of me gaining too much independence , or he might simply be scared that I 'll kill myself the way a lot of youths seem to when they get a bike . |
| 19 | I actually took all those letters home and I went and I listed all the things that were listed er mentioned in all the letters and also that I tried to consider giving you know my impression of the meeting and tried putting exactly what what they 're saying . |
| 20 | If he has severe perceptual problems , for instance , you may need to keep reminding him where his face is by helping him to touch it , or he may keep forgetting to shave or wash the left half of his face . |
| 21 | Just , just do it , do n't need to keep telling me . |
| 22 | If you feel the ‘ fit ’ is wrong so that the relationship is not working well you might need to consider ending it , for there should be a growing sense of ease as you get to know each other . |
| 23 | Having used the preamp for a few weeks now I have got bored with the presets and want to start using it to create some more familiar sounds . |
| 24 | Fifteen sixteen pounds and then you 've got another six or seven pound for a changing mat you wan na say to him , that you know , can I have er , some money , I want to start getting us a few things together , but you , I mean , what about clothes ? |
| 25 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 26 | It was a bulky volume to carry around and my RAF friends used to rib me about my " vest pocket edition " , but I had resolved to keep reading it in spare moments to remind me of my real life . |
| 27 | This has involved finding him venues for walkabouts and group discussions , where his staff think Mr Middle-England will come over well on television , even as they cut down on those wearisome charades , campaign ‘ photo opportunities ’ . |
| 28 | The mother has tried locking him in his room , and smacking him . |
| 29 | But no one has admitted planting them . |
| 30 | Nothing brings a show 's reputation down quicker than the rumour going round the business that the cast has started sending it up . |