Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stolidly avoided reacting to the word ‘ murdered ’ . |
| 2 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 3 | Youds , 22 , of Lavenham Road , Ipswich , admitted speeding on the A45 at Kentford , near Newmarket , on November 8 last year . |
| 4 | Aston Villa winger Dwight Yorke admitted speeding in a 50mph zone on the A38 through Birmingham . |
| 5 | Rising real wages made subletting as a means of supplementing income less essential and , among the unemployed , the household means test made letting rooms a more difficult proposition . |
| 6 | Say she enticed him into the woods and became demanding in every way and heavily emotional , piling on pressure . |
| 7 | The glass of wine went quickly to each head , for Alix 's family was teetotal , and Liz 's alcohol consumption to that date comprised perhaps three glasses of brown sherry and one ( celebrating her A levels with her teacher ) of Liebfraumilch : Esther seemed better connected with drink as with friends , but even she became confiding under the mild influence . |
| 8 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 9 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 10 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 11 | In October 1991 the company ceased trading in the United Kingdom and its business , assets and liabilities there were transferred to a United Kingdom company . |
| 12 | On 26 October 1991 I.B.C. ceased trading in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 14 | She stopped struggling at the sound of her name , and his hand dropped from her face . |
| 15 | Junior environment minister found careering at the wheel after midnight during the Tory party conference in Bournemouth . |
| 16 | The guests assembled in the Salle des Maréchaux , what Mme Moulton described as ‘ the Grand Salon ’ , and at nine o'clock a small procession entered consisting of the Court officers , all in their evening costume of blue with velvet collars , followed by several attendants and then , in the middle , the Emperor and Empress . |
| 17 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 18 | Caspar stopped sniffing in a bracken tunnel and came bounding back towards Philip . |
| 19 | And all the birds that saw it stopped singing upon the instant . |
| 20 | Thus we produced a ratio of three sterile males for every normal one caught resting in the wild ; but we could detect little mating between sterile males and wild females . |
| 21 | THE husband of a heavily-pregnant woman found hanging in a garage told one of her friends that he used to be a backing guitarist for Eric Clapton , a court heard yesterday . |
| 22 | AN INQUEST has opened into the death of a man found hanging in a playground . |
| 23 | In the meantime , motorists caught speeding through the contraflow can expect to receive a court summons in the post . |
| 24 | Christopher Tricky , seen struggling one day to remove an old tree stump near his hovel at the park gate , became , as has already been noted , the subject of ‘ Simon Lee , the Old Huntsman ’ ; a remark from Tom Poole led to ‘ The Idiot Boy ’ ; ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ told the story of a Holford shepherd found weeping in the road ; and ‘ The Thorn ’ was inspired by a weather-beaten hawthorn seen ‘ on the ridge of Quantock Hill ’ . |
| 25 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 26 | Thurso could not afford the £300 needed for the charter in 1876 when , hard on the heels of the Prince and Princess of Wales ' visit to ‘ The Exhibition ’ , the Town Council proposed applying for the honour . |
| 27 | Council records show that during the last 18 months 32 companies and 12 sole traders stopped trading in the town ‘ for one reason or another . ’ |
| 28 | At first , the Sisters themselves tried knocking in a few nails or propping up walls with staves . |
| 29 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 30 | Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night . |