Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | W. S. I tried to avoid using the stick . |
| 2 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 3 | ‘ By the time I 'd finished reading the report I was fairly confident that if I , as an adult , accepted what was on that screen as being right , valid and interesting , then it would be the same for a child — provided I took out any excessive sexuality and violence . |
| 4 | ‘ When I 'd finished writing the book I had lunch with a publisher ; she walked in with this crestfallen expression on her face , saying , ‘ I expected somebody taller , blonder , and just more … |
| 5 | well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started |
| 6 | But I have n't gone really as I hoped cos I 'd envisaged having the membership list with sort of names of who 'll make cakes , who 'll help on the stall and then know who to phone |
| 7 | So I decided to stop reading the mags in order to do so . |
| 8 | ‘ Once I realised that this novel was going to be a kind of mammoth , I decided to forgo writing the series . |
| 9 | Mr Tudor said : ‘ I decided to start selling the Nightstick when a friend of mine had his car broken into . |
| 10 | Those not giving evidence that I spoke to found watching the trials a useful experience and felt that they had either learned something from the process or at least , if they were already experienced in giving evidence , received helpful confirmation on points of technique . |
| 11 | Well , I did keep pressing the Program/Channel button instead of the program decrement button , which puts the TriAxis into MIDI Channel mode and I could n't immediately work out how to get back to Program mode . |
| 12 | I desperately wanted to give him hope — by then I had begun reading the ‘ complementary ’ literature and was coming to realise all I might be able to do for myself . |
| 13 | I had stopped seeing the nightmare shape when I shut my eyes but every so often the pigeon stirred just enough to keep me awake . |
| 14 | It was inevitable that , as I had stood watching the gannets at Bempton , memories of a visit to Grassholm came flooding back . |
| 15 | maybe it was the battle of the Somme , I do n't remember , but I remember I had to go carrying the basket , and mother would go and call on these poor people who had lost their their families . |
| 16 | I had resisted attending the sky burial . |
| 17 | I felt that she had read my mind , that she knew I had contemplated transgressing the roof taboo . |
| 18 | I had to keep checking the only one I had to keep checking was Dick 's . |
| 19 | So perfect , I had to keep parting the hop bines and leaves to see how close I was to the farmhouse . |
| 20 | But sometimes like in the Proms , I had to keep lowering the sound |
| 21 | From time to time a harassed mother might rap angrily on the window to complain that she could n't get her push-chair past the car , which I had parked blocking the pavement . |
| 22 | I told her that I had finished constructing the new kite , and that she could help me test it in the wind . |
| 23 | Dinner came ; for me the meal was a very hasty one , and before I went to bed that night I had finished reading the manuscript . |
| 24 | And once you got started typing the main part of the letter , you were alright then ? |
| 25 | She 'd finished tying the orange wrap now and turned to me . |
| 26 | And it was n't until she 'd finished doing the washing-up , and the kitchen had been cleaned to her satisfaction , that she began at last to simmer down . |
| 27 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 28 | She had loved watching the sea . |
| 29 | She had to continue driving the van all day , and again the following morning . |
| 30 | She could hear the doubt in her own voice as she remembered the gum-chewing , spiky-haired teenager whom she had seen watering the plants . |