Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 2 | Ken took Apricot with him on gigs for a time and quite enjoyed it , but found getting her to school and organizing her clothes and meals onerous . |
| 3 | I tried calling you in Budapest on Friday and Saturday but could n't get a reply . |
| 4 | She tried exchanging it for Fleury 's but that was just as hard . |
| 5 | A letter to Rohde contains , half-way through , the sign " N.B. " and , at the end , the following : " At the point marked N.B. , a message came calling me into town as soon as I reached the foot of the page ; now returned , I am trembling all over and can not free myself of it even by pouring out my heart to you . |
| 6 | A new set of feelings about the baby had begun to emerge since I had nearly lost it , and I wanted to be sure that they were going to take root before I risked dispersing them with talk . |
| 7 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 8 | It was during the summer months of 1968 that my father first began taking me to Walton junction , Liverpool to see what must have been the very last of the steam trains thunder past at 7 o'clock . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's time I began telling you about Constanza . |
| 10 | According to Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , the powerful speaker of the Iranian parliament , ‘ The Americans started contacting us through scores of channels begging us to help them in the Lebanon ; through Japan , our neighbouring countries like Pakistan , our embassies , the United Nations and numerous arms brokers . ’ |
| 11 | Sort of when I first started using it at work |
| 12 | I started nagging him about money , about not having a proper job and no guts to get one … |
| 13 | And like I started doing it , I 'll read it out in English I started writing it in French came to a word I did n't know and thought ah leave it ! |
| 14 | Tiepolo no less , before the artist had commanded the fortune of the present day , but still a great deal of money , even twenty years ago , when Brückner renovated the old mansion and started filling it with treasures . |
| 15 | I started doing it with pot , breaking a little bit , squashing it on the foil and smoking it as though I was having a chase . |
| 16 | doctors they started putting me on anti-depressants , tranquilizers , sleeping pills erm , and you know , they were , their whole manner was just absolutely terrible ! |
| 17 | Like the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century , nobody quite knew what all its decrees meant until they started putting them into practice , and a lot of them , and I suspect a lot of Vatican Twos , need to be interpreted . |
| 18 | I had Masquerade to mend and a life to live and , even if it meant living it without Ellen , my charter days were done . |
| 19 | Alone with her , he floundered ; she kept pushing him under water , teased him with planks that did n't float . |
| 20 | Her parents felt that she was being difficult and kept presenting her with toys and activities that she could not do . |
| 21 | She kept examining me for bullet wounds , I think . |
| 22 | For almost the whole flight I kept asking her about life in England . |
| 23 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 24 | He kept chasing me round David 's garden . |
| 25 | If , on the other hand , your boss kept chasing you for ideas and generally putting the pressure on you until he got ideas that he considered satisfactory , then , providing you found the pressure ‘ nasty ’ and its cessation ‘ nice ’ , behaviour of putting forward ideas would also have been reinforced . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
| 27 | This lasted for half an hour ; however , thick fog and bad bumps kept throwing them off course . |
| 28 | He lay watching me with eyes that were at last getting drowsy . |
| 29 | I liked the Pocket Gem , it worked flawlessly , but I preferred using it with WinFax Pro , which even lists the relatively new Gem in its list of supported modems . |
| 30 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |