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

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1 Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee .
2 Rain believed he was reaching towards one of the cups on the table , but Barbara Coleman stood across the table from him and she recoiled .
3 As he warmed to his theme , George forgot he was talking to one individual , and through him to a huge lay audience .
4 An NOP poll in the Independent on Sunday showed the Tories 13 points behind Labour , while a Mori poll in The Sunday Times indicated they were trailing by 10 points .
5 It was not until they had just left the Church that Joan discovered they were going for two weeks to Tenerife .
6 They revealed they 're looking for two suspects .
7 They revealed they 're looking for two suspects .
8 She felt she was speaking for millions of would-be mothers in rejecting a child because it was mentally handicapped ; regrettably , she was .
9 oh I 'm sorry I thought you was talking about ninety four , ninety five
10 Sorry I thought you were talking about two
11 I thought we were talking about one man , Philippe Maurin ? ’
12 When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite .
13 ‘ Help me ! ’ said a voice in his head , and Jack knew he was listening to one of the Ram children .
14 I thought he was going for three weeks .
15 Then the 62-year-old globetrotter from Bristol revealed he was looking for two more women !
16 She said she 's working till six , and then going to aerobics
17 and he said we 're aiming for five thousand .
18 He said we 're talking about eighty or ninety
19 Colin Dodge for ‘ Sorry chaps , you 're too late , Crooksy and Blain did it last week in a Mobile Adventure open canoe , ’ Eddie Cornfield for ‘ When Fred said we were paddling in two inches of water I thought he was joking ! ’ ,
20 Police said they were looking for three young men in connection with the raid on Wednesday night .
21 The club 's community development officer , Mike Rigg , said he was looking for eight unemployed young men and women , aged 19 or over , to organise soccer schools as part of the 12-month Employment Training plan .
22 Cos he said he was coming between ten
23 He said he was going at 40 to 60 miles per hour .
24 I was gon na say you you s I thought you said 1950 and you said he was directing in 1961 , you know I
25 You obviously did so because you suspected she was going with one of the boys .
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