Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was me and it was both frightening and exciting , like driving very fast round a precipitous bend with someone now and again taking my hands off the wheel and forcing me to trust . |
| 2 | I was brought rudely back to the real world by Tony 's tripod coming off the top of the pile of clatch ( odds and ends ) piled up above the seat and hitting me on the head as the truck lurched to a halt , diving itself into a drift of deep snow . |
| 3 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 4 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 5 | yes , just for instance , my brother pulling my hair in the back of the car and annoying me . |
| 6 | The chute is a perfect dish hovering a metre or so above the snow and hauling me downwind at a speed that would be unthinkable on Nordic skis . |
| 7 | He made sure I knew it was him by flicking on his interior light and waving me towards him . |
| 8 | Already they keep me busy coming and consulting me about their topics to write on , and that , with 12 hours teaching a week , means that it is no holiday . |
| 9 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 10 | Erm I think if someone er told me I need to control my car whilst driving I would have erm one hand on the steering wheel . |
| 11 | Jasper tries to look up my skirt whilst handing me a drink . |
| 12 | Then I ask , ‘ Were you staking that pub or watching me ? ’ |
| 13 | but he used , instead of him buying the wood or getting me to give him the money for the wood , he cannibalized the fucking wardrobes and used the sides and the |
| 14 | ‘ It might prove to be a far more satisfying exercise than baiting me . ’ |
| 15 | He often says unkind things to me , blaming me for the break-up of our marriage and accusing me of being a useless wife . |
| 16 | He had been pointing out of the window and asking me if I liked the weather or the colour of the cows . |
| 17 | As 12-ounce cans of vegetables bounce off the side of my car , one of them smashing my rearview mirror and another sailing with surprising accuracy through my open car window and striking me on the shoulder , I decide to call it quits for the night and return in daylight . |
| 18 | I occasionally find myself eyeing some bloke and thinking I would n't mind popping into bed — but passion … no thanks . ’ |
| 19 | This guy sitting behind me started playing with my hair and touching me up . |
| 20 | FILM / Dropping in the ocean : The Abyss , Young Einstein , Lola , Asterix and the Big Fight and Driving Me Crazy |
| 21 | The metal strip at the side of the card holds an electrical charge — like a piece of recording tape ; this machine reads that , to make sure it 's of the current pattern , while at the same time photographing me and my tag and weighing me . |
| 22 | Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . " |
| 23 | Er I keep getting a lot of headaches and I think it 's with the hacking and coughing I 'm doing . |
| 24 | I was doing the scrubbing and Changez was miserably holding the bucket in the deserted shop and asking me if I had any more Harold Robbins novels he could borrow . |
| 25 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 26 | I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described ( except that it is cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ) and then , as in the other examples , found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it . |
| 27 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Any bit of education or speaking I know I learned from Seth , ’ she says . |
| 29 | what I 'm trying to help you practise , cos we 're not , we 're very good at asking closed questions in conversations but do n't very often recognize , but you know , we , we we we , we 'll zip backwards and forwards , and that 's okay , but I want you to do consciously is know what type of questions you 're asking because you can sometimes be hitting a brick wall and thinking I 'm getting anywhere here and it 's because you 're asking too many closed questions . |
| 30 | I write this on a lovely , hot , sunny day and wishing I was on holiday . |