Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 2 | The cause of children 's bookselling can only be advanced by everyone involved making worthwhile sums of money which justify the resources allocated . |
| 3 | Needless to say , I found his political philosophy disagreeable and unacceptable , but as my mission was to reach agreement I avoided becoming involved in basic considerations or in any way assessing the value of white rule as against black . |
| 4 | Old Angie took everything seriously , always going on about mortal sin , and I got sodding tired of it , and of her , tell the truth . |
| 5 | I said yes I got fucking hundreds . |
| 6 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |
| 7 | I tried telling some of the teachers that . |
| 8 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 9 | In anticipation that the same problem might recur this summer I tried sowing some sweet peas with the runner beans . |
| 10 | I tried joining another group , this time for compulsive eaters . |
| 11 | The houses have one or two storeys , and are often very long — the largest I visited having twenty-four arched french windows in a row . |
| 12 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |
| 13 | I stopped seeing those flats years ago . |
| 14 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 15 | ‘ After I stopped eating factory-farmed meat I now can not stand the feeling of eating flesh . |
| 16 | I stopped feeling sad and began to feel angry . |
| 17 | Erm , I stopped doing that but |
| 18 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 19 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 20 | ‘ Apparently after Naylor had spent hours checking around my old haunts without success , he finally got lucky when someone recalled having many times seen my car parked outside this block of flats . |
| 21 | I woke feeling good , eager to get back to the Hall , but I wrote down the dream first , thinking I would tell it to Edward . |
| 22 | I woke feeling unwell and I decided to go downstairs and make myself a cup of tea . |
| 23 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 24 | When I was younger I hated having red hair . |
| 25 | I hated sketching those council houses at the foot of Stirling Castle but who knows , in another hundred odd years those houses could be as romantic as the tenements of Scotland Street in Glasgow or the crofthouses in Tiree . |
| 26 | ‘ I hated making that film . |
| 27 | The experiment I was doing all those months ago when I began writing this book , which I described in Chapter 2 , involved using the sugar fucose as a precursor for glycoprotein . |
| 28 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 29 | ‘ With the power on I began investigating some of these control panels . |
| 30 | I enjoyed serving better than anything . |