Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MPs are getting letters complaining that fathers may have already taken on commitments they ca n't get out of and they were only expecting to pay whatever the courts had fixed . |
| 2 | Erm we 've covered it I 've done it before I 'm just trying to remember what the answer was . |
| 3 | Now I just trying to think what the other the name of the other one was . |
| 4 | We know , even those of us who are still smoking know what the , what the problems are , let's get on and do something about it ! |
| 5 | Twenty years ago they were Labour but switched in 1979 for one reasons , the right to buy which gave those genuinely attempting to better themselves the chance to do so . |
| 6 | They are narrative , and tell us of a situation , or prepare us for some significant message : Once having told us the story , set the mood , and prepared us for the shout of a choir of angels , Handel could paint a triumphant musical fresco with just a few poetic words : |
| 7 | Blackout is no good while fires are still burning to show them the way , the bloody swines . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 9 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 10 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 11 | In the end , a new Lycra frock is never going to give you the warm , rosy glow of friendship . ’ |