Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goreng had given us two guards — whether to protect us or to stop us getting up to mischief I 'm not sure : maybe both . |
| 2 | And to see 'em hanging out upstairs with the spooks in their tennis shorts — God , what a picture . |
| 3 | She had sat on the seat cover , resting her head on the porcelain of the washbasin , licking dry lips and bringing her breathing down . |
| 4 | It 's what we used to do if we took them off a line and got them cleaning up , it 's a token tow pound ten a day . |
| 5 | Critics wrote of the leitmotif for Malvolio that it ‘ captured the colour mus-tard ’ , and that Guérigny was ‘ positively acrobatic in his ability to turn little themes on their heads and send them spinning out of hearing ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's the easiest way of getting your firewood — cut the trees at the edge of the forest and send them rolling down to the bottom . |
| 7 | I had arrived up at the office one morning to relieve Freda from night duty , and found her sitting up there looking pleased with herself and Jim looking solemn . |
| 8 | I called in on Ruth at lunchtime today and found her sitting up in her wheelchair looking out at the garden and seeming much better and as bright as usual — a nice nurse in attendance . |
| 9 | At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there . |
| 10 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 11 | I went on , running where I could , and found him walking back towards me through the dayniter . |
| 12 | ‘ Good day to thee , sire , ’ Blind Hugh began , and found himself looking up into a face with four eyes in it . |
| 13 | It was in New Zealand , where he stayed for three and a half years , that he first entered the world of Bohemia and found himself getting on best with artists . |
| 14 | few would deny that the CMHTs almost immediately ran into problems due to the squeeze on local authority budgets and found themselves scrabbling around for alternative resources ; |
| 15 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 16 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 17 | In the half-light shining in from the hallway , she went to the dormer window to pull the curtains and found herself looking out directly at Harriet 's cottage opposite . |
| 18 | Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot . |
| 19 | So she changed direction again and found herself walking down to the prom and out along the beach to Seal Sands Lock . |
| 20 | The leading child came on slightly earlier than usual , caught her rope on one of the tassels and found herself going up . |
| 21 | She caught his eye and found herself smiling up at him . |
| 22 | He removed it quite gently and drew her stocking off . |
| 23 | It is hard sometimes to look at an old person sitting passively in a chair and imagine them running around , bringing up babies , managing an office , driving a lorry , getting into trouble with the law , being a pillar of the local community , fighting a war . |
| 24 | ‘ Get there first , ’ Woolley said , ‘ and catch them coming up . |
| 25 | The problem in cultivating horseradish is not so much how to make it grow well , as to curb its enthusiasm and stop it taking over the garden . |
| 26 | Your friends , your parents , your school , your peers , they all try and stop you going out into left field . |
| 27 | Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door . |
| 28 | Her denials were useless because he said he had returned to Kington Square early that morning and seen her coming out of the flat arm in arm with a man . |
| 29 | So far I have described deixis as a closed set of items functioning within certain contexts , and seen it functioning along a cline of possible operations . |
| 30 | To see her at work during the day , with her hair pulled straight back and no makeup on , and to hear her ticking off her girls if they were slacking , you would n't dream it was the same girl who was out dancing with a different partner every night . |