Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 2 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |
| 3 | I tried joining another group , this time for compulsive eaters . |
| 4 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |
| 5 | I stopped seeing those flats years ago . |
| 6 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 7 | ‘ After I stopped eating factory-farmed meat I now can not stand the feeling of eating flesh . |
| 8 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 9 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 10 | When I was younger I hated having red hair . |
| 11 | I hated sketching those council houses at the foot of Stirling Castle but who knows , in another hundred odd years those houses could be as romantic as the tenements of Scotland Street in Glasgow or the crofthouses in Tiree . |
| 12 | ‘ I hated making that film . |
| 13 | The experiment I was doing all those months ago when I began writing this book , which I described in Chapter 2 , involved using the sugar fucose as a precursor for glycoprotein . |
| 14 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 15 | I know it 's something a Samaritan would consider unprofessional , but I enjoyed getting verbal queerbashers to hang up on me because they could n't handle what I was telling them . |
| 16 | I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to anyone with an interest in the way chemistry really develops , as opposed to the way it is described in the research literature . |
| 17 | I enjoyed reading this book and can recommend it as a source of information about the background theory and application of ultrasound to chemistry . |
| 18 | Their hospitality would doubtless have extended to me sampling the food in each of the three messes — but not wanting to risk either myself or the computer 's Carafe programme developing hiccups , I enjoyed visiting each mess and settled for eating in the Sergeant 's Mess . |
| 19 | ‘ I enjoyed playing that role . |
| 20 | So , when I finished reading that explanation of it , maybe I 'll have a stab at it . |
| 21 | It was something like four or five days after I finished filming Total Recall with Arnold and I had to put every dime that I had into buying a house . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ You have to know I loved doing this movie . |
| 23 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 24 | ‘ When I started taking those wickets last summer , I began did begin to think I had a chance of representing my country but , to be truthful , I did n't think it could be more than the England A side . |
| 25 | They had n't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick . |
| 26 | ‘ I started boxing last November and I really like it . |
| 27 | I started using one hand and it was ages before I learnt to use two . |
| 28 | The San Francisco Examiner , which is a paper I did , I started using digital photography for local news coverage . |
| 29 | I started collecting small perfume bottles in black and silver . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I STARTED smoking 40 cigarettes every day , but I do n't finish 40 . |