Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The only clue they have was provided by neighbours who reported seeing a silver or grey car driving away from Greta Avenue after gunshots were heard . |
| 32 | Police are searching Ollersett Moor in the Derbyshire Peak District after a farmer reported seeing a panther in his field . |
| 33 | Two years ago , Capitol police reported seeing a figure who looked like Senator Thomas Hart Benton — thought to have left the premises in 1855 — sitting at his old desk in an historical display . |
| 34 | The Coastguard launched the Crimdon Dene inshore lifeboat and the helicopter at RAF Boulmer was scrambled yesterday after children reported seeing a swimmer floating out to sea near Hartlepool . |
| 35 | VERY FEW things in life beat seeing a steam locomotive in action . |
| 36 | After scoring , the distal 8 cm of the colon were blotted dry and weighed using a Sartorius laboratory balance . |
| 37 | This proposed empowering a summary court to order , on application by the medical officer of that Corporation , the removal and detention and maintenance , in an institution infirmary , of elderly , infirm , or physically incapacitated persons living in insanitary conditions , or who were suffering from any grave chronic disease . |
| 38 | In 1919 a Norwegian engineer named Hjorth proposed driving a tunnel through the Judean Hills . |
| 39 | Readers might also be interested to hear that Stalin proposed signing a treaty with Morrissey when the time was right , only to renege on any agreement , later resulting in the bloody battle of Stalingrad and the division of The Smiths . |
| 40 | Under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 , anyone found damaging a navigation aid or tying up to one can be fined up to £500 , but according to Mr Cooper a fine would be the least of the expense . |
| 41 | This involved writing a sentence on the board , and getting the children to form similar sentences . |
| 42 | This involved presenting a priming word just prior to a target letter string . |
| 43 | The curtain rose disclosing a set which for strident artificiality compared favourably with the train display in the toy shop . |
| 44 | Two of the schemes were paraded somewhat grudgingly , and only on an interim basis , because they involved preserving a measure of selection at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 45 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |
| 46 | Kravchuk proposed holding a conference to arrange repayment and appointing a Western bank to manage it . |
| 47 | Deputies of the Assembly of South Vietnam proposed sending a deputation to Hanoi , and Nguyen Xuan Oanh , acting Premier of South Vietnam during 1964 — 5 , praised him in the Assembly as a Vietnamese hero : one who might be called an Asian Tito . |
| 48 | The offences involved stealing a purse from an 82-year-old holiday maker on a bus in Southport and a wallet from an man aged 84 on a bus in Moreton , Wirral . |
| 49 | DRIVERS in Scotland caught committing a range of traffic offences are to be given the option of agreeing an on-the-spot penalty with police . |
| 50 | The third initiative was somewhat different from all the proceedings one , in that it involved joining a Community Club sponsored by the Alvey Programme . |
| 51 | In the YPLL survey a sixth of adolescents reported spending a lot of spare time on their own . |
| 52 | I created having a car crash last week ! ’ |
| 53 | But I found having a child had put enormous strains on the marriage . |
| 54 | Very young children of four or five were put to work making matchboxes ; Lady Dilke , leader of the Women 's Protective and Provident League ( which became the Women 's Trade Union League in 1889 ) reported hearing a mother in Shoreditch saying ‘ Of course we cheat the School Board … |
| 55 | Another technique ( the " Wheeler linkage " ) involved constructing a return jump in the accumulator at entry to a subroutine . |
| 56 | Sam , stopped fishing a week before his wife 's baby was due . |
| 57 | In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah . |
| 58 | Claire was delighted at the improvement She tried drinking a glass of milk , to see what would happen , and 24 hours later Jamie , following a feed , suffered , a severe attack of colic . |
| 59 | ‘ I 've been told by my superiors that I could use it in the same way that I would to prosecute anyone found mistreating a dog . |
| 60 | He quoted eyewitnesses as saying a man disembarked carrying a suitcase which exploded . |