Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 32 | If the user has the authority to do so , modules may be entered into LIFESPAN after including them in the module header of a package and instructing LIFESPAN to enter them . |
| 33 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
| 34 | Left alone with Carrie , Joe sat watching her pour the boiling water into the earthenware teapot , and after bringing it to the table and setting it on a stand , she smiled at him and said softly , ‘ How are you ? ’ |
| 35 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 36 | ‘ Winning the Ulster final of the Barton Shield against Warrenpoint was a bit of a fairytale , after defeating them in the final of the Senior Cup ! |
| 37 | REFEREE Peter Jevons threw a dictionary , so to speak , at Jeremy Tanner , 21 , after booking him during a match between Derbyshire village side West Hallam and local rivals Alvaston . |
| 38 | A short time later they went out to where a bay gelding and a grey mare were tethered and , after instructing her concerning the correct side to mount , he gave her a leg up . |
| 39 | And a court in Nottingham hears how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Park . |
| 40 | A court in London has heard how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Clumber Park . |
| 41 | It is supplied on a single disk and the Install program deletes the Easy Project data from it after translating it to a blank data disk in the second drive , leaving the A disk as systems disk . |
| 42 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 43 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
| 44 | Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator . |
| 45 | Rachel Still , 23 — who was living with a boyfriend in Wilmslow , Cheshire — drove off with husband Phillip after meeting him for a talk . |
| 46 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 47 | Michael Pearson , 19 , of Leeds , battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub . |
| 48 | LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor . |
| 49 | Connect the wiring after passing it through the hole in the new rose . |
| 50 | Celtic 's offer of around eighty thousand pounds stands and Macari is now considering a package to take him from Stoke City where he 's a firm favourite with the fans after leading them into the English First Division . |
| 51 | After presenting me with a bag of tomatoes , she glanced at my mangled leg and made the pronouncement . |
| 52 | Young members of Prescot Swimming club gather round Stephen Orford , a member of the British Wheelchair basketball team , after presenting him with a cheque for £750 on behalf of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation . |
| 53 | I was worried 'e was gon na take up boxin' after doin' it in the army . |
| 54 | I recall a Saturday midday lecture to Oxford undergraduate and graduate students in the 1970s when , after riveting them with a talk about double fluorescent labelling , he asked if they would be interested in hearing about experiments on motor systems ; they said they would and they abandoned lunch to listen . |
| 55 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 56 | She took the boxed flower and then , after holding it for a moment and wondering what to do with it , laid it down alongside her place setting . |
| 57 | Scar-faced Moore , 33 , dragged two-year-old Clare and David , four , from their mother 's arms after threatening her with a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 58 | One evening , after threatening her with a knife , he raped and then stabbed her . |
| 59 | Hunter carved a hideous noughts and crosses pattern on Heidi 's naked bottom after strangling her with a belt . |
| 60 | After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate . |