Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American-born former wife of the Scottish peer denies three counts of doing acts tending or intended to pervert the course of justice . |
| 2 | One patient receiving cyclosporin had severe nausea and vomiting and had to discontinue the study after one year . |
| 3 | He placed two of the sticks at right angles overlapping and began to twist the wire to fix the two sticks together . |
| 4 | But if Berowne had been writing and had blotted the paper at the desk , where was it now ? |
| 5 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 6 | Five mallard shot past the tree in which he was hidden , their muttered quacks in mid-air soft as the sun that crept the way they were going and began to fill the lake with light . |
| 7 | Novas got their shooting game going and had closed the gap to 48–47 before a succession of shots slipped wide of the basket to end their chances of a comeback . |
| 8 | I stood up with knees that felt like buckling and tried to open the door into the dock ; and it was as immovable from outside as from in . |
| 9 | I could n't stop talking and kept thanking the anaesthetist profusely . |