Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want a divorce , that 's what I want , but he 'll not budge as long as he 's drawing two salaries and has me cooking for him — but I 'll not eat with him , I stick myself in that tiny kitchen in there — can you imagine the life I lead ? |
| 2 | Contracts for the loan of money and supply of goods to infants and ‘ accounts stated ’ with infants were made altogether void , while the possibility of ratification was taken away from all those contracts which required ratification to make them binding upon him after attaining full age ; and even a new promise to perform the contract , whether made upon a fresh consideration or not , could not be enforced by action . |
| 3 | Roger from Ramsey was driving , and a good enough hand with horses and wagons , but what chance did he have with the pair of them drawing on him ? |
| 4 | And this chap in pen , and it showed them drawing on his lips when he was anaesthetized where you |
| 5 | Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved . |
| 6 | A group of burly malai soldiers came jogging in full combat gear from the other direction , the little sergeant who was trotting beside them bestowing on me a suspicious glare . |
| 7 | We hear them preaching in our own language about the marvels of God . |
| 8 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 9 | I mean I 've never needed a new licence for the last three and a half years but Nicholas erm prior to this in the countdown to me appearing for my drink drive which is in a matter of about ten weeks I believe in the countdown to that , Nick said on several o two occasions anyway while other members of staff were present , Well this is a way of getting rid of him without having to pay him redundancy money . |
| 10 | He had found a field of yellow rape in full Liberal Democrat bloom and he wanted a picture of me walking through it . |
| 11 | And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana — Americano , he said disdainfully . |
| 12 | When , infrequently , he wanted to write in ‘ some simple metre ’ , he did so ; but when more often he wanted to get away from standard metres , he left them behind altogether , no ghost of them lurking behind his arras . |
| 13 | True , her book is devoted mostly to the early characteristics of her subjects , the brief biographies she provides for them ending in their mid-twenties . |
| 14 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 15 | I could hear them laughing behind me . |
| 16 | I can still remember the humiliation I felt as I heard everyone laughing at me , and my brother laughing the loudest of all . |
| 17 | I do n't like them interfering with my normal business day . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We must destroy the hole and prevent them returning to our universe , ’ the Doctor said . |
| 19 | Often on the beach , when he 'd run on ahead looking for flat pebbles to skim over the sea , he 'd glanced back to find them walking with their arms around one another . |
| 20 | and I fumbling for my key . |
| 21 | How can they hear without someone preaching to them ? |
| 22 | and that 's can I phoning round everybody keeping tabs , what are you planning over the next three months , aha |
| 23 | Why am I firing at it ? |
| 24 | Am I drawing to you ? |
| 25 | His drawings of it convey the sense of someone singing at his work . |
| 26 | Some folk suspected that after he had dropped out , Kilpatrick had also had someone bidding on his behalf , if only to raise the value of his half-share . |
| 27 | The showdown between the two love rivals happened in the early hours of the morning , when the victim was woken by someone banging on his door . |
| 28 | The average Briton finds someone knocking at his door extremely embarrassing and someone performing on the streets and handing out tracts equally uncomfortable . |
| 29 | Kit Widdows admitted to a little gentle crusading taking place here , being convinced that people would be more likely to be encouraged to come to church when they saw people enacting something that had a meaning for them and that they obviously enjoyed doing rather than being approached by someone knocking on their door . |
| 30 | Suddenly , when she had been lost to everything , alarm bells went off again as the sound of someone knocking on her bedroom door penetrated her thoughts . |