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

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1	The next day , I countered with a speech arguing that as far as the health service was concerned the issue had been settled and that the Government 's policy was to continue to make the service as effective as possible .
2	I joked about a jockey needing a large port and brandy to do that sort of thing cold in the morning — and besides we might be risking the horse suffering a mishap .
3	My attempts to look like a normal human being again were evidently not too successful — at one point in my journey , I came on a man crouching over a small brook from which he was trying to drink .
4	All I ate that day was a piece of bread , which I begged from a farmer eating his supper .
5	I walked in a daze trying to keep warm as strange fantasies plagued my mind : Selkirk chanting in a field of white roses all stained by blood ; my mother crouching on a step as she used to when I would play and run to her — but , when I drew closer , she was an old cripple , eyes open , face frozen blue .
6	" I worked in a factory making bingo books .
7	I felt like a knight-errant riding out for adventure .
8	But for me , in that garret at Hampton Court , I felt like a rabbit having to choose between the jaws of the fox and the talons of the eagle .
9	I felt like a filly starting a race beforehand , sweating and so hyped up .
10	Slowly I began to stumble across other disaffected Irish women and I felt like a traveller finding a friendly inn after a long , cold journey .
11	I went to a protest meeting at the Albert Hall .
12	Number two , I sent off a letter saying about people not coming and er Wentworth have n't sent a I du n no .
13	I filled four pages which I sent with a footnote requesting that they send me some books .
14	I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands .
15	I sat for a while watching the scenery slide by , wild uninhabited stretches of green and autumn-blazing trees , grey rocks and blue lakes punctuated by tiny hamlets and lonely houses , all vivid in the afternoon sunshine , a panoramic impression of the vastness of Canada and the smallness of her population .
16	I sat in a corner looking at the Dutchmen who smiled surreptitiously from the platform .
17	This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet .
18	I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides .
19	Reaching the main hall at last , she mingled with a crowd emerging from another lecture theatre , and suddenly she drew a quick breath and stopped .
20	She stopped beside a man wearing T-shirt , plus fours , cartridge belt , and baseball cap back to front .
21	Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance .
22	Then she drove to a Union meeting at the factory .
23	But as you go on into verse three , and it talks about this relationship again , er , it says he , she came to a field belonging to Boaz who was of the er family of Elimilech .
24	You must help me ! ’ she begged in a voice cracking with grief and fatigue .
25	My God , she curved like a river flowing , she was sexy , no ?
26	She looked like a schoolgirl doing her homework .
27	The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again .
28	Hands linked behind her head , she lay for a while thinking over the extraordinary events of the day .
29	A degree of light emanated from the silently hurtling water , which she felt as a force urging her forward , as though she were in its grip and swept along with it .
30	Her feet tapped loudly on the curving stone steps and for a moment she felt like a bit-player descending to the dungeons — with horror , and a stack of movie cameras , lying ahead .