Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have 12 or 13 players who can hold their own with the best in the League but injuries would leave me struggling and I know it . ’ |
| 2 | I 've learnt a lot , my job depends on me driving and it 's made me realise how much I can drink , how much I ca n't drink , what I can drink and realising about road accidents . |
| 3 | ‘ They have lost confidence , but Martin is just the player who can get them going and I think you will see their true character soon . |
| 4 | ‘ My father saw me going and it frightened me . |
| 5 | I heard you listening and I thought oh she 'll probably wan na tell me if there 's anything , it 's that the warmer airstream or something . |
| 6 | so I said what bike are you getting and he said |
| 7 | And then when I went up home , I 'd have took them out and put them in the fridge and she says what are you doing and I says well that 's a couple of day 's meat for you and she says no no take that off home , take that off home , I 've and I says no that 'll do you . |
| 8 | Listen , what are you watching and he goes |
| 9 | It was elementary : you saw them stealing and you screamed , ‘ Put that back , you fucking thieving tom-cat ! ’ |
| 10 | and I looked at people , we were all saying why we waiting here , why we waiting and we saw people rushing off so we thought we 've got to rush off after them and we were all put on the train and sent to Charing Cross which was n't where most of us wanted to go or anything like we wanted to go |
| 11 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 12 | Oh that was , I , I was waiting on them saying and you see you 're constantly worry of what 's going on at home , and that 's not helping really . |
| 13 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 14 | I thought when I was looking at her talking and I thought , you 're a school mistress . |
| 15 | Well we could set , like you say and no you know , and get it going and you make a salary |
| 16 | We saw it coming and we did nothing . ’ |
| 17 | But if I can leave it running and it runs out it will suit me down to the ground . |
| 18 | It keeps me thinking and I know I 'm going to enjoy the different style . ’ |
| 19 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |
| 20 | Well I got me shopping and it cost me forty summat one . |
| 21 | ‘ Dad had taken us shopping and he 'd bought us loads of things — extravagant presents that were sort of unnecessary . |