Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 2 | Her heart seemed to go climbing up inside her chest , but it was n't till Jake 's hand clamped over her mouth again that she realized she 'd been about to scream . |
| 3 | She 'd stopped riding out with the first lot because of nausea on waking , and Tremayne , far from minding , continually urged her to rest more . |
| 4 | To do that almost seemed to entail giving up on the course altogether . |
| 5 | They 'd gone flying out of the door leaving her wide open to any sort of hurt . |
| 6 | Administer oxygen if prescribed ( usually humidified to prevent drying up of the mucus and paralysis of the protective cilia ) . |
| 7 | As Charles limped along Praed Street , he began to regret dressing up for the encounter , but when he reflected on the exceptional violence of blackmailers in all detective fiction , he decided it was as well to conceal his identity . |
| 8 | Erm so he set up the corner as a darkroom and started doing playing about with his with his own black and white printing . |
| 9 | I kept imagining coming up to London to see you . |
| 10 | The man was n't watching the light room he saw smoke coming up under the so he went away down and there was a fire in a in the er in the library . |
| 11 | As young men , they managed to avoid falling out over the tendentious terms of their father 's will . |
| 12 | ‘ I called last Friday , ’ Fabia mentioned , rescuing her hand from Lubor Ondrus , who appeared to enjoy holding on to it . |
| 13 | At that point , she did n't plan to be a singer , though she did enjoy dressing up as Olivia Newton John and singing into her hairbrush in front of the mirror . |
| 14 | Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading as whole families flocked to combine stocking up for Christmas with a day 's outing . |
| 15 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 16 | He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift . |
| 17 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 18 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 19 | ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’ |
| 20 | Do n't forget last Christmas when you forgot your mother 's and we had to come dashing back for it , and it snowing like blazes . |
| 21 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 22 | It felt as if my whole world had come crashing down on me . |
| 23 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 24 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 25 | She had felt most wonderfully the power surging up behind her eyes gushing like a warm fluid inside her skull , and her eyes had become scorching hot , hotter than ever before , and things had come bursting out of her eye-sockets and then the piece of chalk had lifted itself up and had begun to write . |
| 26 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 27 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 28 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 29 | All except Gooseneck , Amiss and one of the girls were in ordinary clothes , and having looked at what was available for breakfast Amiss wondered why they had bothered turning up at all . |
| 30 | Every time I changed trains there was a posse of London Underground inspectors , so I had to keep doubling back on myself . |