Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Releasing on Nov. 15 its budget figures for 1991 , the government stated that it planned to increase spending by 22 per cent to the equivalent of US$499,000,000 and would face a fiscal deficit of $150,000,000 , only $91,000,000 of which could be expected to be covered by future loans . |
| 2 | Ideologically sound sisters moved to hard-to-let housing in depressed urban centres and sold their properties to hotels and banks . |
| 3 | He 'd more or less stopped thinking about money ; he 'd stopped thinking about ordinary living . |
| 4 | An hour later , she 'd stopped thinking in those precise terms , and was trying to tell herself he 'd been detained . |
| 5 | Kurt , however , was remarkably animate , clearly happy it was all over , and talked enthusiastically about how much he 'd enjoyed touring with Shonen Knife and was now just looking forward to going home for a rest . |
| 6 | Dimly , she thought that was n't the romantic kind of thing she 'd envisioned saying at this point , but what did it matter ? |
| 7 | There was a feeling of hopelessness because of the prospect of unemployment facing most of the young people but also a great deal of anger and frenzied organizing arising from this . |
| 8 | Mr Patten pledged to continue fighting for greater democracy for the colony . |
| 9 | I was pleased to lose Long John and began to enjoy looking around this strange island . |
| 10 | After discussion with the therapist , Tony agreed to start searching for another job more systematically ; he proposed to look at the local newspapers twice a week for possible job vacancies . |
| 11 | They were both too conscious that it was the last , the knowledge weighing heavily on them , giving rise to complex emotion each time their eyes met , until eventually they started avoiding looking at each other . |
| 12 | Magistrates agreed to delay sentencing for three months so he could take the holiday . |
| 13 | Seventeen of the 46 patients allocated to surgical therapy experienced documented bleeding from oesophageal varices after randomisation . |
| 14 | I managed to stop drinking for four months : I kept a bottle in the house but I never touched it . |
| 15 | I did keep going in that direction . |
| 16 | I did stop smoking for three months and then with everyone else around us , I mean I was putting on weight and then I went back to smoking . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , local influences continued to affect voting behaviour , while about four-fifths of the voters appeared to vote according to national party preferences , the remainder did not . |
| 18 | I 'm not sure , the grocer 's shop erm , now er they did credit trading in those days and most people took the credit . |
| 19 | After a while we appeared to stop accelerating in this nose-high stance — and of course we could no longer clearly see where we were going , so I eased the yoke forward to lift us onto the step . |
| 20 | She had delayed coming for twenty-four hours because she had a hair appointment . |
| 21 | On average , 28% of those who smoked in 1974 had stopped smoking by 1981 . |
| 22 | The army had stopped laughing within one week of receiving Gary . |
| 23 | Among those present either lunching , or braving the elements to watch the match , or both , were the new Argentine Ambassador Señor Mario Campora , , she is better known as TV sports presenter Sally Jones ; Mr and Mrs Brian Jenks , whom I had enjoyed meeting at Royal Ascot earlier in the week ; , Mr Brian Morrison , he owns the Royal Berkshire Polo ground ; Major Ronald Ferguson , who runs the polo here very efficiently ; . |
| 24 | Under Dutch and early British rule their fortunes had varied according to colonial policy towards the cinnamon industry , which at that time provided most of the country 's export earnings . |
| 25 | Mrs Gracie had come running at last . |
| 26 | Emmie thought it would be impolite to Mrs Sargent to let her see the clothes she had bought looking like that . |
| 27 | All entrants had envisaged graduating in 1988 . |
| 28 | If you had anticipated returning to clinical nursing without undertaking a re-entry programme first , then this kind of worry will have to be ironed out during your period of reorientation to the ward or district . |
| 29 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 30 | The evictions marked the end of the squatters ' movement , which at its most successful had provided housing for some 10,000 people . |