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 .
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