Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For months we talked financing with these people . |
| 2 | he here 's a Pat Boone record or something and all of a sudden he started dancing to all this and the old black bloke comes in and says oh my life , he could n't get any of the old blokes . |
| 3 | Gillian I started training in social work after I left university . |
| 4 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 5 | Here are some of the weekly incomes and budgets of some of the people I met living on social security : One man and woman in their early twenties living in Coventry with one child , mostly unemployed since leaving school , have a total income of £5.25 child benefit . |
| 6 | When I was working in Australia I went swimming with some missionary friends near Darwin . |
| 7 | Well that 's a feeling you got moving around that er what the hell was the good of coming to a meeting you had no say in your conditions or wages or whatever . |
| 8 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 9 | That was what stung most of all — the fact that he did n't even expect her to complete the one thing she loved doing in all the world , the one thing she was good at . |
| 10 | Using her hands she began paddling in that direction . |
| 11 | After breakfast we continued working until eleven , then returned to the long hut . |
| 12 | Stevie , sensitive man that he was , had also picked up the atmosphere , Chris 's unusual silence and the way they avoided looking at each other . |
| 13 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't remember the last time I enjoyed racing like that , ’ a jubilant Mansell told reporters . |
| 15 | ‘ All the time I spent looking at that portrait , probably , ’ he mused , his lips curved in a smile of satisfaction . |
| 16 | She said it was about time I started bringin' in some dosh , ‘ specially now the ole man 's on short time . |
| 17 | ‘ Is n't it time you stopped thinking about old debts and started winning some new contracts ? |
| 18 | Adverbial clauses she subdivided according to functional relationship ( time and causal , for instance ) — the categories will be familiar to anyone nurtured in the traditional approach to clause analysis ! |