Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suggesting something which the child can say to himself/herself in a crisis ( 'self-talk ’ ) can be surprisingly helpful : ‘ I am in control ; I can manage . |
| 2 | And yet it 's the people around Harlow were not supporting it what the hell are you going to do then ? |
| 3 | Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else . |
| 4 | S as Spike knows , about phoning places that I where I do n't recognize the number and asking them who the fuck they are and when he called them . . |
| 5 | ‘ Khan , if you are asking me what the Kha-Khan 's intentions are , then I have to tell you that he has not confided in me . ’ |
| 6 | Is he asking me what the solution is ? |
| 7 | The young lady in question ( who I shall call Mrs X because I am afraid that I omitted to catch her name ) began by asking me what the bad points were within the embalming profession . |
| 8 | But we can not deal with this without asking ourselves what the results of a university education are supposed to be and what degree of intrinsic value pertains to them . |
| 9 | That is the basis of the famous " niche " strategy which means that you secure for yourself a useful market by doing something which the big boys find uneconomical to do at the price you can manage . |
| 10 | Hewas so considerate when she lost the baby a year later , overlooking that she had failed in giving him what the nurse reluctantly told her would have been a son . |
| 11 | In fact I still remember ‘ Tiger Smith ’ coming into our dressing-room while I was giving a pre-season captain 's talk and asking him who the hell he was . |
| 12 | I was feeling miserable , even though I was happily married [ to American actress Gwen Humble ] and then I started asking myself what the hell I was doing . |
| 13 | But whereas other recent Lotus DOS products such as 1-2-3 Go and 1-2-3 Release 2.4 come with Wysiwyg already attached and invoked so that the spreadsheet is automatically in graphics mode , when you install Symphony you have the option of using separate text and graphics mode or of combining them which the installation routine warns may be slow . |
| 14 | A gust of cool air swept through the kitchen , setting the steam swirling , drawing it our the door . |
| 15 | We have I have got I we have produced for you today , some detailed plans showing you what the capacities are of the routes , what the present flows are and what the effects of the new settlement will be upon those capacities . |
| 16 | We are reverent and grateful to God , showing him what the Old Testament frequently calls , ‘ the fear of the Lord ’ . |
| 17 | You 've got to make it the beginning and the end see what comes up looked it up or anything , thought erm he 's showing her what the younger generation , you know , are erm treating each other is n't he in a romantic way erm there 's not much romantic practice in the older generation is there , a bit more affection based on intimate knowledge of each other that sort of thing . |
| 18 | Would you mind telling me what the connection is between eczema and asthma ? |
| 19 | This meant addressing various specific requests to the Turks , telling them what the consequences of refusal would be , and informing the major European courts that Russia was giving the Ottoman Empire a last chance . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm just telling you what the people in the photographic laboratory have told me , ’ Karen said . |
| 21 | ‘ They listen to you until they 're five and then they start coming home from school , telling you what the teacher says . ’ |
| 22 | But again , he had disappeared after her act , leaving her none the wiser , but with her curiosity well and truly aroused . |
| 23 | Perhaps Sir Ian should lend Mr Major a hand by telling us what the average shopper 's trolley contained in 1979 , and what it contains today . |
| 24 | The way we vote is being influenced by editorial interpretations of what John Major said to Norma over breakfast ; by magazine articles telling us what the Kinnocks enjoy for breakfast ; and by TV coverage ( live , no doubt ) of Paddy Ashdown telling us why he chooses toast and Marmite every time . |
| 25 | Thus when the women stop pleading for peace and resort instead to the threat of killing themselves it the fight proceeds , it is as if the currents of sexuality and violence , circulating between the men in a way which sustains sexual difference between male and female , are suddenly switched off ; the threatened self-annihilation of the women is also a breaking of the circuit . |