Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | They stopped shouting at each other , expecting the Headmaster to burst in on them at any moment . |
| 3 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 4 | If children approached schooling in this manner schools would have no wish to ‘ lose ’ their pupils , the throughflow of children with genuine adjustment problems in units would be assured and the ‘ moral order ’ re-established . |
| 5 | Users are charged a flat rate for this committed information rate , although the service supports sustained bursting above this level , up to the full access channel capacity , at no extra cost . |
| 6 | Stevie , sensitive man that he was , had also picked up the atmosphere , Chris 's unusual silence and the way they avoided looking at each other . |
| 7 | And anyone who came calling at that time today must have more time than sense , because today was Tuesday . |
| 8 | ‘ All the time I spent looking at that portrait , probably , ’ he mused , his lips curved in a smile of satisfaction . |
| 9 | After Rigby ended the relationship , she began living with another musician , Michael Duane , at his flat in Leeds . |
| 10 | When I asked him once whether his FI career had really mattered to him that much , he answered characteristically that of course it had , but that he enjoyed racing in any form , and of all the forms of racing he enjoyed winning best : ‘ I win more over here , ’ he said , adding with a characteristic grin , ‘ and it 's easier . ’ |
| 11 | Using her hands she began paddling in that direction . |
| 12 | Erm and although it was erm you know , it was good and the people themselves enjoyed talking to each other as well , it was a bit tiring at the end of the day . |
| 13 | Existing Golf diesels are sold out , and the first 1992 models with the new larger body in right-hand-drive form began arriving on this side of the Channel last month . |
| 14 | Rapid and dramatic developments in the medical sciences , particularly in the area of biochemistry and genetics , have demonstrated that the previous certainty which surrounded thinking in this area is an illusion . |
| 15 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 16 | Jancey and Rachel quit staring at each other . |
| 17 | She said it was about time I started bringin' in some dosh , ‘ specially now the ole man 's on short time . |
| 18 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
| 19 | She soon started appearing on such television classics as Doctor Who and Dixon of Dock Green . |
| 20 | We started shouting at each other . |
| 21 | I can recall a class of ten-year-olds designing their own Norman village for several drama sessions before they became engaged in non-projected drama activity ( personal play , as Peter Slade calls it ) , i.e. before they started interacting with each other as villagers instead of through their designs . |
| 22 | His daughter wrote , in a biography even more adulatory than most Victorian daughters ' biographies of their fathers , ‘ He loved conversing with all manner of persons , but I do think he preferred a parson to any other . |
| 23 | Then he started howling with more laughter . |
| 24 | ( c. 36 ) Whereas outside the realm , the king needed warning of any rebellion by subject peoples , or any imminent attack , " inside the realm [ the vital point was to find out ] if the people ( populus ) in any part , region or corner of the realm was in a state of disturbance , then what was the cause of it , and if a complaint of the people was becoming serious or if a noise was being made about some injustice about which it was necessary for the general assembly to deal " . |
| 25 | But when the village people arrived at church they noticed her and started whispering to each other . |
| 26 | Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users . |
| 27 | He whispered ‘ bollocks ’ under his breath and started going to another church . |
| 28 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 29 | It almost ran back to its own truck and started speaking into another telephone . |
| 30 | ‘ Palmer & Pearson ? ’ she queried , and discounted that at once because until things started moving on that contract there were no problems . |