Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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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 | ‘ She insisted she 'd seen you heading out through the woods at about half-past nine , shortly before she missed it . |
3 | Have n't seen him coming out of the car . |
4 | I 've seen her going along to the library regularly , pretty well every night . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I said I did n't but I 'd passed her coming in to the party . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |