Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We long ago ceased to enjoy hanging as a public spectacle . |
| 2 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 3 | A chartered surveyor , he talked himself into the chairmanship of the Conservative backbench environment committee and in 1987 he tried to curb gazumping by a system of forfeits . |
| 4 | MITI helped to promote streamlining in the parts industries over the years 1956 to 1966 , aimed at modernization and rationalization of the number of suppliers . |
| 5 | Sophie tried to read meaning into the noise . |
| 6 | I wonder what he 'd intended doing with the cottage . ’ |
| 7 | To be a Jew was to be a member of a tribe , even if you 'd stopped dancing round the totem pole . |
| 8 | But , he said , he 'd enjoyed eating in the restaurant for the last 20 years and he was pleased to see it revived . |
| 9 | She seemed to stand staring at the two of them , and they at her , for a long time , while outside , where night was making of the road a strange country , the vegetation grew black and monstrous . |
| 10 | They 'd considered going to the police , but agreed that , after the embarrassing débâcle of the inquest , further accusations from Jacqui against Nigel Steen would sound more like the ramblings of a paranoid than anything else . |
| 11 | Robbie had n't realised just how much she 'd missed sleeping in a conventional bed , with plenty of room to stretch out her long legs . |
| 12 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 13 | Her eyes fell on two empty jam jars standing on a shelf , and then her mind flew to the clumps of snowdrops she 'd noticed blooming near the entrance to the shearers ' quarters . |
| 14 | As I became more and more obsessed by him , and as he absorbed more and more of my being , all else seemed to start retreating into a permanent , one-dimensional background , against which only he and I stood out as more than stick figures . |
| 15 | He 'd brought her not flowers , not fruit , but a little orange kitten , which he 'd found wandering in the street outside . |
| 16 | Soon after my release from the old jail I 'd gone looking for the creche in which the Organisation for Working Danuese Women had made its home . |
| 17 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 18 | I did n't know how long I 'd wasted looking for the compass or how long I 'd knelt in capitulation . |
| 19 | Well , it was all to the good ; after he 'd finished skiing for the day they 'd return to the cottage , and she 'd set out for home . |
| 20 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
| 21 | Sarah 's arms and legs were getting thinner every day , and the rag mat she 'd started making for the hearth became too heavy to have on her lap . |
| 22 | The attacks had been committed on April 19 , 1989 , by a gang of some 30 youths who went " wilding " — a term which came to mean rampaging through the park perpetrating random assaults . |
| 23 | However , the Khmers Rouges rejected the call , and vowed to continue fighting until the final Vietnamese had left Cambodia . |
| 24 | Chiluba pledged to reduce spending on the security forces and to privatize loss-making parastatal organizations . |
| 25 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 26 | At the bar a group of dossers began singing Roaming in the Gloaming . |
| 27 | All that happened was a series of complaints when the results of the overall programme began to affect spending in a particular field . |
| 28 | Many other European firms are in trouble and some , like Volvo and Renault in 1990 , began to consider merging as the prospects for protection continuing beyond 1992 seem dim . |
| 29 | A series of ellipses , arranged to balance according to the Law of Moments , assume a depth scale by size . |
| 30 | The old Labrador and the two Jack Russell terriers loved to go rabbiting along the bank . |