Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got fed up working in the library on fine autumn days and went cross-country running . |
| 2 | His a terrible , so we did n't go near him right through on the playing field , and then Katherine , I found to get , I sat , found a way to get them near Matthew and then Katherine said , I tickled him on the back , and I 'd kept on doing that . . |
| 3 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 4 | ‘ There I was being really good , ’ Leslie says , ‘ I 'd given up smoking seven months before I became pregnant to get it all out of my body . |
| 5 | I began to go around following a teenage girl known as Crazy Eneas . |
| 6 | It gave me the encouragement I needed to carry on trying . |
| 7 | I did end up teaching — but not French . ’ |
| 8 | I think I did end up working for them though . ’ |
| 9 | I still needed money so I had to carry on working the streets . |
| 10 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 11 | I had to give up caddying when I left school to take up other jobs , but carrying the bags was in my blood and by the time I was twenty-four I was back to caddying full-time . |
| 12 | ‘ When we got married for instance , I had to give up teaching because there was a regulation which said husbands and wives could n't both teach and of course it was the wives who left . ’ |
| 13 | He really wanted me to leave the Order earlier , but I said I had to go on helping . |
| 14 | After that I realised that — like anyone else — I had to go on earning the money . |
| 15 | I had to go round planning to be some rich corpo . |
| 16 | So I had to go out shoplifting every day then . |
| 17 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 18 | After the first morning when it appeared in the garden I had gone on giving it food . |
| 19 | ‘ I had to rush around trying to find a farmer with a cart who might be going where I wanted , ’ Katz lamented , his woebegone countenance matching his sorry tale . |
| 20 | I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property , but I had no opportunity to read anything . |
| 21 | ‘ I wanted to go on playing here but life is too short to sit around doing nothing . |
| 22 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 23 | What if you 'd gone on believing the worst of me and into the bargain you 'd ended up having to marry Janice ? |
| 24 | What if you 'd gone on believing the worst of me and into the bargain you 'd ended up having to marry Janice ? |
| 25 | ‘ Placing a half-silvered mirror in front of a camera allowed the camera to see two images simultaneously , providing you 'd balanced out lighting the two images very carefully . |
| 26 | As she had dressed she 'd kept on asking herself why he had come . |
| 27 | She 'd grown up knowing that . |
| 28 | An ’ then , within a few years , they 'd got the babby an' she 'd given up teaching . |
| 29 | Christ , Clare was even fit at the time ; she 'd given up doing coke and taken up healthy shit like running and swimming . |
| 30 | She 'd started out meaning to apologise , but there was something so darned aggravating about this man that it was turning into an accusation instead . |