Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] was [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fernande openly admitted to starting life as a street-walker and Madame Hébuterne must have felt she was travelling with a menagerie . |
| 2 | Gregory , who had been teaching English in Thailand for two years , has said she was acting as a courier for Lock , on whom no drugs were found . |
| 3 | I am not even sure we would say that the parrot had said it was going to the bank , that is , had made an assertion . |
| 4 | All that is except this one when it could be said he was dealing with a special case — of cutlery . |
| 5 | Chairman Murray had said he was looking for an apology from Crosby over rumours linking the Sunderland boss in a reunion with former manager Denis Smith at Bristol City . |
| 6 | While they were saying so , Marshall was contacting Mrs Tavett and learning that her husband had said he was going to the surgery that morning but had not been home since . |
| 7 | Helen , of Moulton Grove , Fairfield , Stockton , burst into tears and had to be supported by relatives after being told she was going to a young offenders institution . |
| 8 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 9 | AN election candidate was last night accused of abusing democracy after some of the people who signed his nomination papers said they were not told he was standing for the far-Right British National Party . |
| 10 | ‘ Lady , if I 'd known I was dealing with a certifiable lunatic wild horses would n't have dragged me here . ’ |
| 11 | He must have known she was referring to the game he was playing with Lotta ! |
| 12 | But deep down she 'd known she was sitting on a plane bound for the Caribbean because she wanted to be . |
| 13 | Diana had known she was marrying into a close family , but she was unprepared for how claustrophobic it would be , or how dull she would find long spells in their company , with their passion for dogs and horses . |
| 14 | Her family had never doubted she was heading for the top job . |
| 15 | No , I I think it was somebody I was talking to from Bretford who said that she 'd gone she was looking after the |
| 16 | This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside . |
| 17 | Steward had announced he was retiring at the end of that season but his retirement happened earlier than anticipated . |
| 18 | It was a brief letter from an address in Chelsea , telling him that the writer had heard he was looking for a sibling , affirming that the writer of the letter was probably that person , and suggesting a meeting . |
| 19 | Before I got married I was living in the London Palace and there was something like three hundred and sixty girls there . |
| 20 | Yesterday , two of them told The Northern Dr Clarke had not mentioned he was standing for the BNP , and that they would not have signed had he said so . |