Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter . |
| 2 | The next day found her driving round the busy , bustling city of Sheffield , desperately trying to keep one eye on the traffic , and the other on the directions scrawled on a piece of paper . |
| 3 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 4 | 1966 found him guesting with the amazing Captain Beefheart on The Magic Band 's first album of psychotic psychedelic blues , ‘ Safe As Milk ’ . |
| 5 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 6 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 7 | When they entered his rooms , in answer to his hearty ‘ Come in ! ’ they found him sitting in the broken armchair , surrounded by books , his feet comfortably supported by a small wooden stool . |
| 8 | Alex recounted her meeting with the young painter and they laughed together . |
| 9 | Dropping the bedding in her arms she held on to him and probably prevented him falling from the narrow landing down the stairway . |
| 10 | They moved on , down the cathedral-like space , soaring columns that dwarfed them disappearing into the swirling mist . |
| 11 | I heard them whispering to the other sailors several times , but I did not suspect what they were planning . |
| 12 | Sara looked sulky and left them to it , and they heard her calling to the old lady with rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 13 | After they had left , she stood in the doorway and watched them walking down the main street past the square . |
| 14 | I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed . |
| 15 | I watched him attending to the new arrivals and tried to recall the details about him . |
| 16 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 17 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 18 | ‘ We were from different cultures , but they kept me going through the bad times . |
| 19 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 20 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
| 21 | Elizabeth played one of her characteristically tantalizing games , and kept him waiting until the very moment of her death . |
| 22 | One morning , on his way down to breakfast , Dada saw her kneeling on the left-hand flight of the double staircase ; thinking she was saying her prayers , she was bent so low , Dada stepped past her politely . |
| 23 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 24 | He took him hunting with the Old Berkshire where he jumped all sorts of obstacles and had to learn to look after himself in tricky situations and he found a new enthusiasm . |
| 25 | I myself saw him parading through the stunned streets , with courtiers , in his carriage , pushed by a white horse like a paper bag full of water and bones . |
| 26 | I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter . |
| 27 | They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay . |
| 28 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 29 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 30 | ‘ When we finally got there , tired and bedraggled , the custodian sent us packing on the next ferry because we did n't have the 2/6 entry fee ! ’ |