Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 An SAR helicopter of the Army Air Corps and an RAF Nimrod began a search , and at 0015 on Friday 9 March William Luckin slipped her mooring with Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell in command .
2 She went out his wife , shopping left him tinkering with this scooter came back , could n't get in then she did get in and he was dead on the floor !
3 One of the radio control room operators heard her screaming in uncontrollable agony over the airwaves .
4 While one interviewee described it as meeting monthly ( at least in the early stages of the project ) , the chairperson recalled it meeting in full committee on only a handful of occasions , with the bulk of the work being undertaken by individual members in liaison with the academic and pastoral divisions they represented .
5 Mrs. Oxley concluded her reading with three poignant poems about her son that she wrote herself .
6 Hospitals kept them waiting for scarce beds , but sat on acres of land in the middle of booming cities .
7 Veblen saw it developing in late twentieth century America .
8 Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge .
9 Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again .
10 The visiting officer found him living in one room which was almost entirely filled by a double bed .
11 There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other .
12 ‘ Do n't ask me , missis ; all I know , wherever she went on those nights , she 'd leave here at half-past six and it was lucky if the clock saw her coming in that door at half-past eleven at night . ’
13 In the 1970s , Sir Alec set us laughing at some of the items in the Educational Assessment Program in the state of Michigan :
14 Jimmy saw him coming through blurred vision and wished that he could get to his feet , but he could n't move .
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