Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes . |
| 2 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 3 | Lewis found himself looking at three puzzled faces . |
| 4 | Yet while his wife slept one afternoon he found himself looking in cardboard boxes in the attic for blackout curtains which he remembered from the War . |
| 5 | And Pete , who had n't been entirely unaware of some of the paths that such a newly-founded relationship might follow , suddenly found himself shifting into back-off mode . |
| 6 | He side-slipped to miss three tightly spiralling planes , and found himself drifting into another cluster . |
| 7 | The fired guitarist did not mope and soon found himself playing in two Leeds groups , U.V And The Free Radicals and The Chorus . |
| 8 | So when the first stallion , a beautiful bay unbroken three-year-old , was lead into the ring , and Lindsay saw and sensed in the horse many of those virtues that a horse-lover hopes for , he found himself bidding against two knackers , until he had bought the horse for the price of dogs-meat — $185 ! |
| 9 | In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock . |
| 10 | Charlie found himself waiting in another queue before coming face to face with the sergeant again . |
| 11 | He found himself responding to some of the ideas that the Tunisians gently explored in their tents . |
| 12 | Worse yet , the British foreign secretary , the highest-ranking western visitor since Tiananmen , found himself negotiating with Chinese messenger boys . |
| 13 | It is hard to know exactly what the company were aiming at or were attempting to say , but after a couple of scenes the audience found itself tussling with one question only . |
| 14 | After a year in office , the Thatcher government found itself presiding over mass de-industrialization , inflation of more than 20 per cent , a rise in public spending , and the prospects of a slump . |
| 15 | Friends of the Earth found itself fighting alongside left and right-wing members of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee to overturn the tax system which benefited investors in plantation forestry at the expense of wildlife and the taxpayer . |
| 16 | His wife , who was never speechless in those days , entertained the painters , art critics and sculptors more successfully than her husband and found herself slipping into various love affairs which her Arnold , smiling quietly and getting on with his business and his collection , seemed to expect . |
| 17 | Believing it was Travis , she froze round-eyed as she found herself gazing into four faces as surprised as her own . |
| 18 | Lindsey sensed him tensing , then found herself watching in rapt fascination as his mouth descended again . |
| 19 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |
| 20 | Meredith peered into a couple of loose-boxes and called ‘ Mr Fearon ? ’ but only found herself staring into surprised equine faces . |
| 21 | The name stuck in her throat , and she found herself fighting against this ludicrous anger . |
| 22 | Still , reluctant as she was to aid and abet her curious cousin in any way , she found herself asking with careful casualness , ‘ What 's his mystery ? ’ |
| 23 | Happily she drifted into the man 's arms , and found herself spinning from one partner to another , thrilled with the magic of dancing in a snowy square , the growing gloom lit by the dainty fairy lights and lanterns . |
| 24 | ‘ The whole idea very quickly snowballed , ’ says Ann Checkley , who soon found herself travelling to other organisations with CPR 's ideas . |
| 25 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 26 | I found him reflecting on this problem with his usual shrewdness . |
| 27 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
| 28 | He found him chatting with two soldiers , and sharing their bottle of whisky . |
| 29 | The visiting officer found him living in one room which was almost entirely filled by a double bed . |
| 30 | The Royal College of Physicians and similar organisations overseas have studied alternative allergy and found it wanting in scientific credibility and clinical usefulness . |