Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 3 | Isabel found herself staring at Matilda 's kindly face , completely at a loss . |
| 4 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
| 5 | Without meaning to , O found himself staring at them too . |
| 6 | Isabel stopped her pacing about the room and looked at de Raimes in surprise . |
| 7 | One UN convoy was still stranded at the Drina river frontier between Bosnia and Serbia after Bosnian Serb militia stopped it crossing on Sunday . |
| 8 | The Londoner found himself staring into the expressionless face of the tall and broad , blond-haired , blue-eyed bouncer . |
| 9 | Leaning away slightly as Ibn Fayoud enveloped her in his gowns and aftershave , Kelly found herself looking at a smiling Annie . |
| 10 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 11 | Nessie found herself reacting as if to the parish priest or the headmaster of the school . |
| 12 | The Old Testament records them running after false gods , the gods of the nations round about them , whenever opportunity offered . |
| 13 | Corbett met him coming up the stairs . |
| 14 | Far from being an eyesore , local people get pleasure seeing them blowing in the wind . |
| 15 | He felt the glass being tweaked from his fingers and opened his eyes to see her disappearing into the kitchen . |
| 16 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 17 | Turn on the television and every second programme has someone talking about his or her problems , his or her divorce , his or her illegitimacy , his or her illness , alcoholism , drug addiction , sexual violation , bankruptcy , cancer , amputation , psychotherapy . |
| 18 | Lucy found herself mouthing like a mill worker to make herself understood over the noise , which was louder than any machinery . |
| 19 | His cheerful smile belied his words and Hari found herself responding to his warmth . |
| 20 | She was seen by neighbours as she made her way along Athelstane Road towards her home , minutes before passers-by found her lying on the pavement . |
| 21 | He forgave her , and then a week later he and Keeley came home from the Beaux Arts Club to find her sitting on the basement steps , smiling nice as pie . |
| 22 | Her employers , the Northern regional health authority , want to prevent her returning there , to end her secondment as a neo-natologist in Newcastle-upon-Tyne , and for the foreseeable future prevent her working in child abuse . |
| 23 | His notebooks show him hesitating between reminiscence ( ‘ It was exactly eight years ago ’ ) and testimony during trial ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell everything ’ ) . |
| 24 | ‘ The IAC consider it damaging for the Labour Party to regard the SDLP as their equivalent in Northern Ireland and the IAC believe the Party should distance itself from the SDLP . ’ |
| 25 | DEC 's demonstration showed it running with 256Mb internal and 852Mb disk , and says it had it running with 4Gb external in the labs . |
| 26 | The 69-year-old photograph shows him arriving in Beirut in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 27 | The vicious front snap-kick caught him caught him just above his right hip , instead of square in the groin , but its force knocked him spinning to the ground . |
| 28 | Hari heard him beating at the bushes with his truncheon and then he opened the door to the workshop . |
| 29 | The organisation is pointing in a direction and the momentum keeps it going in that direction . |
| 30 | ‘ All that stuff about community meant you could leave the kids with your mum if you had something to do , and you would n't grass on Charlie if the police came looking for him , and you could borrow ten bob to keep you going to the end of the week . |