Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1969 a doping scandal at FC Bologna in Italy led to the entire team being found guilty ; in Uruguay the following year two internationalists admitted using an exotic African drug and in the World Cup prior to Argentina , FIFA banned the Haitian internationalist Ernst Joseph for taking the proscribed drug phenlmetrazin . |
| 2 | United 's defence stopped expecting an offside flag but Alexei Mikhailichenko was allowed to continue and put Rangers ahead . |
| 3 | An AA spokesman said : ‘ People tried making an early getaway to beat the traffic but they 've all met up and combined with others returning home from work . ’ |
| 4 | The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case . |
| 5 | She came wearing an enormous hat and I was totally in awe of her . |
| 6 | The e.p.s.ps were recorded on computer disk and their amplitudes measured using an automated computer routine that measured the average voltage difference between two zones , one in the pre-stimulus baseline period ( avoing the stimulus artefact if necessary ) and the other straddling the peak of the averaged . |
| 7 | Mr Smith encouraged forming an open and honest relationship with the bank , presenting this as in the interests of both parties . |
| 8 | Dempsey admitted stealing an estimated 200 items of clothing , valued at £6,000 as well as £1,500 in cash . |
| 9 | Leaving Russia in 1918 , he began building an international reputation for uncompromising modernism . |
| 10 | Every hour spent pitching an icy descent increases the party 's exposure to this risk , and meanwhile an afternoon thunderstorm may be brewing to provide the finale to your epic . |
| 11 | In her fifties she began developing an elaborate theory-part religious , part mystical — on the natural supremacy of women and the need to return to a matriarchal society . |
| 12 | Outside , the military authorities began enforcing an undeclared night-time curfew . |
| 13 | Social and Community Planning Research , an independent , non-profit institute specializing in social surveys and social research , began conducting an annual survey to investigate public attitudes to a wide range of social and political issues . |
| 14 | As Israel 's authority was being lifted , the population began creating an alternative authority of their own . |
| 15 | Accordingly , Manville took out his code manual and began preparing an official sanction for despatch to Brussels . |
| 16 | Therefore Corbett was relieved when , five days after his departure , the Prior 's courier returned bearing an oral message . |
| 17 | As Taylor began planning an improbable revival in Washington on Sunday against a Brazilian side that threw away a three-goal lead in a 3–3 draw with Germany last night , FA chairman Sir Bert Millichip emerged as a key figure . |
| 18 | Shamlou began feeling an immense sense of power , and was aware of his loins stirring . |
| 19 | These codes , along with a further set derived using an original corpus-based method , are investigated in Chapter Six . |
| 20 | My index finger started developing an involuntary twitch towards the fast forward button . |
| 21 | ACT was a computer bureau and systems house until five years ago when it started selling an American machine called the ADDS . |
| 22 | Fans shouted ‘ cut ’ as the star started describing an earlier film , Witness , as exciting and a must for cinemagoers instead of praising his latest blockbuster . |
| 23 | Although the government managed to survive a no confidence vote in the Knesset on Jan. 27 , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had made it clear shortly after the departure of Tehiya and Moledet that he favoured holding an early general election ( elections were due to be held before November 1992 ) . |
| 24 | The senior management team spent one and a half days in Cheddar , Somerset , on a variety of teamworking tasks , one of which included mapping an underground cavern . |
| 25 | George Robinson , 18 , of Phoenix Road , Pennywell , Sunderland , admitted taking an F-reg Ford Sierra from the Roker Hotel car park and driving it recklessly on the A19 , A183 and various roads in Sunderland . |
| 26 | At that time he admitted controlling an industrial capital of £800,000 . |
| 27 | Since the party was dominated by trade unions accepting it meant accepting an intricate network of loyalties rather than accepting socialism : Idealism was in fact rather less necessary , or sustaining , than loyalty within a trade-union dominated Labour Party . |
| 28 | And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it . |
| 29 | This meant devising an ingenious variant form of blue screen for the mattes , whereby the blue light was front-projected off a Scotchlite front-projection screen onto the back ( 'blue' ) screen . |
| 30 | This meant ensuring an adequate supply of unleaded fuel in garages , providing information on how to have cars adjusted to run on unleaded , and a financial incentive for the public to make the change . |