Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huckerby , a worried-looking , balding man , had a responsible position which basically involved overseeing editorial expenditure and running the paper day to day , but was best known for fussing round the office collecting old coffee cups and switching off the lights last thing at night . |
| 2 | Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber . |
| 3 | The company needed workers , and so began building small terraces of houses for its labourers to live in . |
| 4 | Henri was a totally normal baby until six months , when he suddenly started having infantile spasms . |
| 5 | It would have been sensible to consult my book of British butterflies before I started for I soon realised using authentic colours greatly improves the overall impression ; if you can , I would suggest you refer to a book also . |
| 6 | She found him nice and easy to talk to , and they soon started seeing each other regularly . |
| 7 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 8 | In the end we just stood holding each other close , as the tears coursed down our faces . |
| 9 | A BOSS yesterday admitted making sexist remarks to his secretary for a laugh . |
| 10 | After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game . |
| 11 | Burnside , 19 , of Coronation Street , and Sture , 21 , of North Road admitted two counts of burglary , one of taking a vehicle without the owner 's consent and one of theft , while Burnside also admitted handling stolen goods . |
| 12 | Judge Geoffrey Jones caused a storm by making the comment at an earlier hearing because Ian Stevenson also admitted assaulting two boys . |
| 13 | He also admitted keeping indecent photographs of youngsters in the society 's files . |
| 14 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
| 15 | After realizing that it also involved reordering agrarian relations he proceeded to fall under the spell of Mikhail Pozen , a large landowner from Poltava who was determined to prevent emancipation from damaging the interests of the gentry . |
| 16 | I thoroughly enjoyed playing this game and , I like the idea of making my own game worlds with the ZZT Editor and controlling the objects using the built in ZZT-OOP programming language . |
| 17 | In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories , essays , and journalism . |
| 18 | The company also started making silly mistakes . |
| 19 | He also liked playing one person off against another , mischievously involving a young man with the girl-friend of a boy he himself fancied . |
| 20 | This savannah covered huge areas as the great forests of 15 million years ago decreased following global changes in climate . |
| 21 | He immediately began making anonymous donations to charity — but stayed as an agent with Kleeneze . |
| 22 | She even started making other arrangements so she would n't just end up sitting at home staring at the phone and forcing herself not to ring him and say her plans had changed and she was free after all . |
| 23 | Molly and Judith frequently went visiting other girls in the community after dinner and as often as not did not come home for tea ; and , since Malka had married and left Cork , Judith spent even more Sundays out of the house . |
| 24 | Erm I had a phone call just before I came out , area area party , so this 'll come It 's about actually in the ward which we narrowly missed getting last time just by erm not even a very strong The by election is on September twenty third and we want leafleters this weekend , so if anybody is able to go on leafleting , which is right between It 's er I 've got the phone number for Forgot the surname but she works with Bob , so if you ring up and say this Is that Linda who works with Bob . |
| 25 | Loveridge then admitted handling stolen property and he 'll be sentenced for that offence in the next few weeks . |
| 26 | He then began preaching Wycliffite views to enthusiastic congregations in and near the town . |
| 27 | You say in your book that in June 1959 you had lunch at Claridge 's with Basil Taylor and then began collecting British art . |
| 28 | She poured the coffee down the sink , then started running hot water to wash up the supper dishes . |
| 29 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 30 | You wo n't be knackered at all I mean bloody killed playing freezing conditions . |