Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 2 | I would n't have considered giving you the job if my friend Lord Coleworthy had n't recommended you so highly . |
| 3 | Perhaps he should have delayed writing them a little longer . |
| 4 | He 'd avoided giving her a direct answer when she 'd tried to ask him about his friendship with the actress , but it was obvious that there was a very real chemistry between them . |
| 5 | At least he 'd stopped calling her an English pig . |
| 6 | Turning south overhead Dunster Castle we climbed through the cloud which had now formed giving us a restful trip home VMC on top . |
| 7 | Naturally , once the first paragraph of his letter met my eyes , I sat down with reassurance to say how sorry I was not to have written earlier and to have delayed giving him an account of the Italian visit . |
| 8 | In the late 1880s , he was able to make major improvements to this pen , and was to be found assembling them every evening in his hotel room . |
| 9 | At Martin Brundle 's lunch in London I discovered that Maurice Hamilton had been the Mastermind question-setter and he reported that if I thought answering them was hard , he had found setting them a good deal harder . |
| 10 | And next Thursday she 'll be heard playing it the length and breadth of the country . |
| 11 | It would have been better if the programmer 's skill was recognized making him the author or joint author of " computer-generated " works . |
| 12 | This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be . |
| 13 | Now if the child can not interpret and relate the symbols to the animal , then he 's left wondering what the symbols mean , he ca n't relate the symbols to understanding that a cow is spelt verbally as C O W , and he 's left quite mystified , and he does n't know what we 're talking about . |
| 14 | The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away . |
| 15 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 16 | And anyway you ought to try , you ought to have tried telling him a few ! |
| 17 | Having given herself a good talking to , and feeling ashamed of her misplaced , foolish pride , Laura made her way into the twins ' small bedroom , where Ross had just finished telling them a story . |
| 18 | ( It did n't come near the hair line so if he had n't kept tapping it no one would have noticed it . ) |
| 19 | He was careful to exchange addresses and telephone numbers and , if he had not been so short of funds , would have suggested buying her a drink at the Ritz , outside which they were both standing . |