Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 2 | Forgotten that she had thought she had seen someone moving around in the darkness . |
| 3 | ‘ She insisted she 'd seen you heading out through the woods at about half-past nine , shortly before she missed it . |
| 4 | Have n't seen him coming out of the car . |
| 5 | I 've seen her going along to the library regularly , pretty well every night . |
| 6 | Her denials were useless because he said he had returned to Kington Square early that morning and seen her coming out of the flat arm in arm with a man . |
| 7 | Once , Cardiff could have imagined himself throwing up at the sight of that horror behind the wheel . |
| 8 | I said I did n't but I 'd passed her coming in to the party . ’ |
| 9 | The Prosecution has begun its summing up in the trial of two men charged with causing the deaths of five young people by reckless driving . |
| 10 | At lunchtime Desmond had n't been able to place his usual bets because she 'd sent him haring back to the digs to see if an urgent letter had arrived . |
| 11 | I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames . |