Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here are some of the weekly incomes and budgets of some of the people I met living on social security : One man and woman in their early twenties living in Coventry with one child , mostly unemployed since leaving school , have a total income of £5.25 child benefit . |
| 2 | And er I got going with that , carting bricks and timber and all that sort of thing for him , got really going and er fetching ballast from train concrete . |
| 3 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 4 | I tried ducking under broken sections , but they just ducked right down after me . |
| 5 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 6 | As I slid the door bolt home I stopped counting at ninety-two . |
| 7 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 8 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 9 | It is true that primary schools are providing a better educational service ( with the possible exceptions of spelling and mental arithmetic ) than they were when I began teaching in 1948 . |
| 10 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 11 | For example , when I began researching into social aspects of book reading I knew very little at all about publishing or bookselling and my experience of libraries was mainly limited to being a user of them . |
| 12 | I enjoyed touring with all those people . |
| 13 | That is partly why I enjoyed going to different writers ’ groups . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't remember the last time I enjoyed racing like that , ’ a jubilant Mansell told reporters . |
| 15 | ‘ All the time I spent looking at that portrait , probably , ’ he mused , his lips curved in a smile of satisfaction . |
| 16 | ‘ I loved living in that Provençal château , in that very beautiful part of the world , with Picasso , Braque and Cocteau stopping by , but with Douglas you never knew when kindness would turn to vitriol … |
| 17 | ‘ So I started thinking about alternative ways to earn a living . |
| 18 | Although Bert Cooke , shortly after his conversion , became an active supporter of Paisley 's evangelistic work , he was less than enthusiastic about the public image of the Church : ‘ When I started thinking about full-time service , I did n't want to be a Free Presbyterian . |
| 19 | It was after Mother left that I started thinking like that . " |
| 20 | She said it was about time I started bringin' in some dosh , ‘ specially now the ole man 's on short time . |
| 21 | ‘ It was our best ever medal haul in the championships since I started coaching in 1961 , ’ said Long . |
| 22 | Then I started shouting before Shifty and Pointy could react . |
| 23 | I 've also recently purchased an effects processor ( BOSS SE50 ) and as most of the patches for the guitar were boring , I started experimenting with some of my own . |
| 24 | Friends I think I started writing in 1988 and I just worked and worked on it . |
| 25 | Then I started buying from other dealers to satisfy demand . |
| 26 | ‘ He gave me my first winner when I started training in 1987 , and today was the 100th race of his career and his 10th victory . ’ |
| 27 | Gillian I started training in social work after I left university . |
| 28 | FIGURE 2 It soon became apparent when I started working on this quick landscape sketch that the Polychromos Pastels are equally well suited to a more painterly method of handling too |
| 29 | I started putting in more hours and sometimes found reason to sleep at the office , hoping I could sleep off this feeling of falling out of love . |
| 30 | It was about then [ three years ago ] that I started going with some of my mates like Kevin(10) and Eddie(6) … and Eddie and me we got into a lot of fights and that … and the fucking coppers — they always grab either him or me when there 's any bother or that . |