Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was shown into an empty office where I sat waiting for a minimum of ten minutes . |
| 2 | Anyway , so I began sorting through the trunk . |
| 3 | I could n't make out what was going on so I began walking towards the image , binoculars pressed to my eyes . |
| 4 | When I was due to arrive in Tasmania to stay with a geologist colleague , Penny Green , you can imagine that I was n't too displeased when I was asked if I minded going on the odd fishing trip as the whole family was ’ into ’ it ! |
| 5 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 6 | while I sat working in the sun . |
| 7 | Curiously , I have become even more strongly persuaded of that since I began dabbling in the making of political television programmes . |
| 8 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 9 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 10 | I 'd try to go before I kept going to the public one 's |
| 11 | I also used to help him with his drink and biscuit and he would always drop his soggy biscuit over me but I was ever so sad when I finished going to the Mother and toddler group as that was my favourite part of the week . |
| 12 | I tried your idea Mr Derr , but had to give it up when I kept falling off the ladder . |
| 13 | Ten years ago when I began researching into the role of women in trade unions , it would have been quite surprising to find such a subject included in a sociological textbook . |
| 14 | When I started stravaiging about the bens and glens more than 50 years ago , I had never heard the name Munro applied to a hill . |
| 15 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 16 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 17 | And I used to get in when I was a young boy and see them when I started working on a farm I always to see them . |
| 18 | I did a lot of homework when I started working on the script . |
| 19 | Thirty years on I saw it again , when I started going to the Aegean . |
| 20 | ‘ My wife noticed when I started practising on the lounge carpet after Sunday lunch that I was also behind my arms . |
| 21 | Okay this er this lecture is called multiple government and the federal system and it flows directly from the last lecture when I started talking about the er the constitution and about the principles and the values that erm form the American system . |
| 22 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 23 | The same was true when I tried recording with the ME-6 through a Fostex desk onto cassette . |
| 24 | As I stood hesitating in the doorway , Miss Kenton appeared at my side and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , I have a little more time than you at the moment . |
| 25 | The bus was cosy and , as I stood dangling from a strap with the other excess passengers , someone asked the driver if Hampstead Road was still closed off to traffic going north . |