Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 2 | " I got fed up of seeing people 1 knew getting dressed up and going to pubs or discos , because I could n't and I did n't know what the latest was — and round here that matters a lot , " said a nineteen-year-old Wigan woman with a child . |
| 3 | At regional level the western states have for months managed to wriggle out of paying more than a fraction of the growing unity bill . |
| 4 | It was my father , who had come out of hiding because he did n't want to be parted from us . |
| 5 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 6 | The sun had set and dusk , like some nocturnal beast , had crept out of hiding and was stealthily licking its paws . |
| 7 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |
| 8 | An anonymous teacher writing in Time Out said : ‘ I decided that I had to get out of teaching when , walking down the corridor , I heard myself screaming ‘ Tie ! ’ ’ at some kid I did n't even know . |