Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he is worried about them having an accident with it but , but he 's not er worried about him having the motorbike , no he cos he would have done the same as a er child anyway well things like that , but erm what he 's worried about is that er with Ryan i and the other boy , n not Ryan so much , the other boy does it all the time , they 're churning all the grass up all over there in great big |
| 2 | it 's worth me having a go . |
| 3 | ‘ If I play tonight and put in a solid performance , hopefully he would n't look upon it as me doing a job just for one game . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I play tonight and put in a solid performance , hopefully he would n't look upon it as me doing a job just for one game . ’ |
| 5 | He tells me that the National Front 's ‘ a load of rubbish ’ , that politicians are ‘ a waste of time ’ and that when he sees his nan , … ‘ she 's always on about me getting a job . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about me becoming a burden on you , you know . |
| 7 | You switch between them using a memory — resident utility . |
| 8 | Indeed , utilitarianism and Kant 's ethic of duty for duty 's sake are usually seen as the two great extremes of moral theory , the line between them representing a continuum on which most moral philosophies with a positive theory of what is right and wrong can be placed . |
| 9 | There 'll be no chance for me getting a job . |
| 10 | Other and if it was n't for for me doing a course next year which would probably preclude me from doing that , I 'd be quite interested . |
| 11 | This will vary greatly between someone reading a novel on a train and someone reading it as part of the study for a PhD thesis . |
| 12 | A quick but careful briefing would , in most cases , prevent incidents such as someone lifting a wing without first checking that the other wing will not come down on to another glider 's canopy . |
| 13 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 14 | He wrote as someone perceiving a breakthrough . |
| 15 | Is it worth my taking a coat on ? |
| 16 | We played in Guernsey and this man came after us waving a stick and shouting that we were heretics and ‘ Thou shalt not be a false Messiah ’ . |
| 17 | I think the sorry , Bill , the erm confusion arises because we 're talking about warranties and insurance and most people buying a car , getting extended insurance or one of these insurance schemes , will assume it 's warranty , but there 's no protection for somebody issuing a warranty going out of business . |
| 18 | Some days were better ; she would curl up on the sofa and talk dreamily about their taking a trip to Norway together . |
| 19 | It was built so very near the sea that it had narrowly escaped being carried away in high tides , and doubtless would have been altogether afloat but for its having a foundation of some two feet and a half of stone . |
| 20 | And what I 'm going to get out of it , well I hope it 's a step towards me obtaining a degree at the Open University and hopefully I can get promotion eventually . |
| 21 | of me getting a house . |
| 22 | If I was to get a job outside of the centre [ occupational day centre ] now and retired at 65 what would be the point of me getting a job ? ’ |
| 23 | One woman ‘ decided to have a baby so I would n't be lonely in the house on my own and there was not much chance of me getting a job ’ . |
| 24 | So I then told her that if we were gon na stay here , the chances of me getting a job were very slim . |
| 25 | Oh yes , now if by any chanc chance you do have a question in the exam where you 're asked you know instead of the wound being on top of the scalp , some clever so and so decides that you 're good at improvising and you 've got a wound over the top of the eyebrow , the eyebrow 's split , okay , so there would n't be much good of me going a minute , pull that there , trying like this round there |
| 26 | Basically because the produce manager who was training me was so scared of me making a cock up , he never never left my side when I was . |
| 27 | Jason had some really cool material , too , and so we decided to collaborate , and instead of me doing a solo album we combined our material and made a record . |
| 28 | If even she has difficulty , the chances of me adopting a child are negligible , I suppose . |
| 29 | She also carefully lectured me on the possibility of me treating a baby as a fashion accessory , or something to use as material for an article or two , or even worse — as the excuse for an article or two being late . |
| 30 | I went into the van where the people were booking in and asked if there was any chance of me having a go . |