Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK . |
| 2 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 3 | Then he remembered that the cottage had been sold , the money placed in trust for his father 's mother , the income paying the fees of the nursing home where she sat all day rocking herself in a wheelchair — Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 4 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 5 | Also we went down to the H.Q. at Pages Park where we saw some men putting up photographs of the line in the past . |
| 6 | On warm days in the summer the alligators have access to a separate grassed enclosure where they spend long periods basking directly in the sun . |
| 7 | Christopher , of Bognor Regis , Sussex , was rushed to hospital , where he spent five days recovering from his ordeal . |
| 8 | Murray gave him petrol money and a bundle of £20 notes amounting to several hundred pounds and Mr Taylor drove to Carlisle and then Liverpool , where he obtained two balls containing powder . |
| 9 | Continue on track as it bends right then curves round edge of large field , then past a second building and up minor ridge , where it meets another track coming up from right . |
| 10 | GTE Corp signed a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of Lynch Corp for the sale of its telephone service area in Kansas on undisclosed terms : GTE put 2,300 access lines in Kansas up for sale in January , where it has three employees serving 13 exchanges in the state ; after the purchase , Lynch will have 10,750 access lines in five states . |
| 11 | There are already five major contenders for the ‘ authentic ’ Bach Magnificat crown , although I harbour mild reservations concerning them all . |
| 12 | Although I notice extensive second-degree smutting and several blots of what appears to be some kind of industrial lubricant . |
| 13 | I was one of the first ones to be flown out and then there was a postal hold-up so I had real trouble finding out what was going on , and also trying to organise to have him brought home . |
| 14 | Sadly , mine is a sort of hole in the wall — not possible to move — so I spend more time running back and forth to fetch tools than I do using them . |
| 15 | As the flickering tongue scooped inside her shallow navel , so she felt gentle hands squeezing her pliant gourds . |
| 16 | ‘ Once you had one Italian doing well in a place , more from their town or village followed . ’ |
| 17 | Once you have one ball moving smoothly , you can try two . |
| 18 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 19 | We 've recently used the front room as a lounge so we have three residents eating in there , three to four eating in one of the other lounges . |
| 20 | Although they saw other Girls rehearsing in troupe , Elsie and Eddie Port seemed to be the only pupils who were training at the School . |
| 21 | If I buy some carpets fitting or do I extra for the fitting ? |
| 22 | Do n't let's go there again though , cos I spent all day making coffee . |
| 23 | I mean I did n't realise cos she had these lumps coming out of her chest and I thought she had cancer . |
| 24 | You know if if you had twenty people using your book . |
| 25 | In my experience it 's always , it 's higher than low pay , and I do n't believe that companies go to an area because the payment of wages is low if everything else is not favourable to them as well , in fact low pay in itself does not attract , and conversely , I do n't think the thought 's an impossibility , because I 've talked to potential inward investors , and jokingly , sort of teased them and if you get enough companies coming into Shropshire , then inevitably wages will go up , and they 're intelligent people , and they realize it , and they not the magic ball , and of course when local shopkeepers are concerned about their businesses , then the amount of wages that are available to spend has an effect on your local small company . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps if you spent less time lurking behind doors ? ’ |
| 27 | These fish are especially prone to ‘ conditioning ’ ; you can switch their minds onto a certain item of food and if you keep that food trickling through their swims over a long period they will continue feeding , with only short breaks , until that food runs out or some other disaster happens to move them . |
| 28 | If you notice any mole changing in character , a new mole appearing , or large dark freckles showing up on your skin , do see your doctor . |
| 29 | Well if you have other applications running the reason is obvious — you are cutting them off in their prime without giving them a chance to save data or clean up any temporary files that they might be using . |
| 30 | Erm , cos otherwise it 's er it 's only if you have multiple applications running . |