Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was so suprised when I got the letter telling me about the award that I burst into tears , ’ says Joan , a widow . |
| 2 | I was horrified when I found the book expanding and expanding . ’ |
| 3 | Although I found the food unappetizing , I warmed to the atmosphere of the place . |
| 4 | First , I traced the wound using a clean , clear polythene bag and filed it in Mrs Allen 's notes to allow regular reassessment of healing . |
| 5 | I seen the sergeant rolling his eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ Before I dropped the life-raft I studied the sea trying to form some sort of mental picture of the current and wind . |
| 7 | When I came out , I noticed the smoke coming from downstairs . |
| 8 | Then I noticed the Bible lying all on its own on the other side of the bunk ; the Bible on which I had laid out the relics the night before last , Night Zero . |
| 9 | When they 'd gone through into the lecture hall , I noticed the professor staring after them with a very odd look on his face — a stunned , frozen look . |
| 10 | Just then I noticed the housekeeper putting a dish on the table . |
| 11 | Of course I could n't see either of them , but I could hear them , and I imagined the rifleman peering into the ditch . |
| 12 | So it was with reluctance that I climbed the ramp leading into the longhouse with its two great tusks over the circular entrance . |
| 13 | Well , one day I opened the door expecting a customer and there were three strangers . |
| 14 | She has done it much better , and there was such a quantity of it here ; I dreaded the child coming in , as much as others must have done , but for different reasons . |
| 15 | I swung the rucksack containing the bagpipes , and my kit , on to my shoulders . |
| 16 | Peter set up Nottinghamshire 's library in the winter of 1978–79 with the assistance of then chairman Dick Milnes : ‘ I spent the winter filling in gaps in the collection and disposing of the duplicates . |
| 17 | So I , I spent the night thinking oh dear , have I done the wrong thing now ? |
| 18 | I spent the day riding , or rather bucking , at anchor , the only time in my life I really wanted to die . |
| 19 | Laughing , he adds : ‘ I spent the evening chatting up Elizabeth and then asked Julie out . ’ |
| 20 | After we had been locked in I spent the evening making preparations with Malleson 's help : sewing on buttons , dubbining my boots , making a pillow case into a rucksack and staring at a map with unreal names on it like Danzig and Berlin . |
| 21 | I spent the time making the house look nice ; I wanted him to know just what a lovely home I could build for us . |
| 22 | I spent the morning doing my usual , a 40-mile ride to the seaside town of Riverton , to work up an appetite . |
| 23 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 24 | I sensed the warmth screaming out of the atmosphere to be replaced with the absolute zero of his clinical persona but I could n't stop myself . |
| 25 | Alive inside my skin , indifferent to the blister smarting in the soft cruck of my thumb , I sensed the world changing round me — ; a sensation of risk , of things poised on a hot brink where anything might happen and never be the same again . |
| 26 | I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them . |
| 27 | I heard the master saying at school there could be a war , so next year I could be a man , could n't I , and be in the Army ? |
| 28 | And I heard the girl saying well I do n't look for smart shoes now . |
| 29 | I heard the cat miaowing and I knew something was wrong . |
| 30 | ‘ It kept coming through the sun roof and at one point I heard the roof caving in , ’ he said from his hospital bed . |