Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [v-ing] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can watch it coming or turn your back on it . |
| 2 | ‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’ |
| 3 | But the people of Jericho did see them coming and shut the gate , crying , ‘ Hippy convoy ! ’ |
| 4 | People were afraid of me — they would see me coming and move off the sidewalk and into the street . |
| 5 | So if they can keep you breathing and get your body to produce the necessary antibodies , then they can cure you . |
| 6 | I could see him wondering whether to warn the bursar he might be one or two fees short next term . |
| 7 | Kathleen turned away from the window , hastily , for fear her sister should see her watching and began to get out the mixing bowl and pastry board , the flour and the milk . |
| 8 | He could see her deciding whether to agree or disagree , he could see her weigh the advantages and the possible disadvantages . |
| 9 | It had claws like an eagle talons ; she could hear them shredding and splintering the wood . |
| 10 | You can hear them screaming and banging their heads , crying that they want to go home . |
| 11 | I could hear them laughing and talking . |
| 12 | We could hear them laughing and chattering beyond the reeds , their dresses flashing bright glints of colour through the green stalks . |
| 13 | She could hear them yawning and coughing as they moved around . |
| 14 | he served with the Irish Guards before he volunteered for the Commandos , and you can be sure that he will have you playing that tune as often as possible , as long as you do n't play it around this H.Q , I do n't mind . ’ |
| 15 | I had n't known that he was in , because normally when he is in the house you can hear him singing and moving around . |
| 16 | ‘ What about Saturday , the following night , when Matthew was called out to see to the lights at Morvyl — did you hear him going or coming back ? ’ |
| 17 | I could hear him bawling and banging his way through the Nissen hut across the way . |
| 18 | He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees . |
| 19 | She was not about to be drawn into any argument with the count and she was shakily aware that any of her usual remarks would bring swift retaliation , probably spectacular aerobatics that would have her screaming and confessing madly to the sin of femininity . |
| 20 | Playboy , yes , she admitted reluctantly ; she could well imagine him wining and dining beautiful Australian socialites . |
| 21 | In Britain , most juries would find it depraving and corrupting to solicit members of the public to become voyeurs of an actual rape , murder , and dismemberment , but a new criminal test based not on the effect of the work , but on the circumstances of its production could provide one more useful link in the chain of criminal provisions which modern media law requires . |
| 22 | The nightlife revolves around several self-contained centres , the biggest and best being the Kasbah where most nights you 'll find us hopping and bopping around Fantasy Island , a wonderful disco pub presided over by our friends Steve and Donato . |