Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently the cleaner overheard them having a tremendous row . |
| 2 | And underneath the story started : Gallant young Dr Kit Masters , Oxford Boxing Blue , beat off a gang of three Blackshirts when he found them attacking an old man who ran a tailor 's shop . |
| 3 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 4 | So we followed the sign , and with some amusement found ourselves confronting a huge mirror ! |
| 5 | When we started work on it , however , we found ourselves rewriting the whole grammar , changing its organization , and introducing much additional material based on the Survey of English Usage . |
| 6 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 7 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |
| 8 | And in Bolton , where an assisted candidate was selected by an association with a large working-class element , he found himself facing a Liberal rather than a Labour opponent and went down to defeat . |
| 9 | And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still . |
| 10 | When the Cabinet met at noon , Baldwin found himself sharing a defensive corner with Birkenhead . |
| 11 | He had Letty and now found himself dreading a new face to love . |
| 12 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 13 | A disgruntled postman rang up a radio chat show to complain , and found himself spearheading an anti-Florio movement that culminated in 50,000 people marching on the state capitol . |
| 14 | When Culley did the same , he found himself holding a cold roach . |
| 15 | At the age of 17 he found himself manning an anti-aircraft gun aboard the light cruiser , HMS Scylla . |
| 16 | ‘ Watts is really only sixth in the pecking order up front , but suddenly he found himself playing the biggest game of his life and he did himself proud . ’ |
| 17 | He found himself becoming the emotional prop of the marriage . |
| 18 | He found himself studying the thin man 's hands . |
| 19 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 20 | By a desperately ironic twist of fate he found himself confronting an away match at Swindon at the height of the press exposure about his betting . |
| 21 | Yet he found himself treading a familiar road when he played a junkie in Drugstore Cowboy ( 1989 ) . |
| 22 | So it was that Riven found himself attacking a wooden post with a wooden sword that was slippery with mud , and being lectured by the unsmiling Myrcans . |
| 23 | He found himself following the line of marks left in the carpet by the sharp heels of her shoes , caught himself watching the alternate bracing of her calf muscles as she moved to and fro . |
| 24 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 25 | Germany found itself facing an expansionist Europe and a booming industry . |
| 26 | Sierra Leone 's 3,000-man army found itself facing an intensifying struggle throughout May against forces of the Liberian rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , despite denials of any involvement by the NPFL leader Charles Taylor [ see also above . |
| 27 | During the 1960s , under the leadership of Terence O'Neill , the Unionist Parliamentary Party found itself devoting an increasing amount of time to questions of economic and social reform . |
| 28 | The government soon found itself taking an ambivalent stance towards the waiguoren ( foreigners ) . |
| 29 | The Gulbenkian Foundation was exploring training for the performing arts , and by the middle of the decade the CNAA found itself confronting the complex range of elements of the creative and performing arts in its existing courses , and expressions of interest by institutions proposing specialist courses — notably in drama and in dance and movement . |
| 30 | By a process which almost seemed inevitable the State found itself directing a major part of the country 's industries , and controlling or licensing most of the remainder . |