Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not been eating properly and had been drinking more than usual . |
| 2 | He could feel his heart thudding furiously and hoped desperately that he 'd succeeded in making his voice sound casual . |
| 3 | And a few miles away Antony heard the boughs of the sycamore tree sawing together and watched the sinister patterns moved by the wind across the frosted glass of the bathroom window . |
| 4 | Just then she spotted a loose thread hanging down and catapulted forward . |
| 5 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 6 | I went into the van where the people were booking in and asked if there was any chance of me having a go . |
| 7 | Northants were put in to bat : but Devon Malcolm must have had his eye on an England selector : he was steaming in and picked up two quicks wickets . |
| 8 | Others have suggested that there were paired nasal sacs opening separately and gave rise to the theory that heterostracans might be ancestral to jawed vertebrates ( Fig. 2 B , b ) . |
| 9 | His house was broken into , his fiancee was attacked while walking home and had her handbag snatched , and then his car window was smashed . |
| 10 | I lived in York for 17 years before returning home and saw the outer ring road being built there . |
| 11 | I was driving past and tried to stop this poor devil getting beaten up . |
| 12 | He started with a series of gulping sobs , went through to a noise like a drain emptying out and finished up with a sort of throaty sob . |
| 13 | Ah , when you were walking about and said I 'm trying this out I thought it was erm I thought our exercise bike had come . |
| 14 | The little Bath wizard kept England B driving forward and changed a 5–8 half-time deficit into an 11–8 lead with two penalties early in the second period . |
| 15 | With that she got up , put her knitting away and said she would go with me as far as our house . |
| 16 | At discharge , when he was fully well , he was eating normally and had no clinical abnormality in chest or abdomen . |
| 17 | He was also ordered to forfeit £150 from a previous binding over and bound over again for a year in the sum of £250 . |
| 18 | He told Elizabeth of the meal in the dining room , with the butler and maids serving on and made her giggle at his father 's summing up of the Dowager Lady Lassiter . |
| 19 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 20 | Secure in the knowledge that his mother would be fully occupied for the rest of the evening and the butler would be busy introducing the guests , Patrick pulled off his dressing down and slipped down the back stairs to the kitchen . |
| 21 | It had provided that the deal could be varied in writing only and had to be signed by Mr Gillespie and by a director of the purchasing company acting with the authorisation of its board . |
| 22 | He lay on his side , holding the covers over him by their edges , gazing at some of his copies of Vogue , which Tessa had been looking through and left lying on the carpet in front of the fire , where they glowed pink and red . |
| 23 | She started to cry with happy relief and Hepzibah put her mending aside and took her on to her lap as if she were Nick . |
| 24 | Twice I thought it was local interference or a plane passing overhead and twiddled the tuning knob . |
| 25 | If the shop manager knew that the accused was acting dishonestly and had no authority from the bank , he would not have completed the transaction . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , he does n't sound like anyone I know , ’ I said , ‘ unless he 's a caddie who happened to be passing nearby and wanted to quiz me about any work available . ’ |
| 27 | He could see that her hands were trembling faintly and remembered how that felt . |
| 28 | Mavis laid her knitting aside and came over to the bed , where , to my redoubled annoyance , she sat down and took my hands . |
| 29 | by way of ensuring staff knew what was going on and had something by way of training . |
| 30 | But there a braver adult , entering and pushing them aside , saw what was going on and drove them out of the train . |