Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He stood up holding an automatic pistol and started trying to slot a magazine into the grip . |
| 32 | Believing , at that time , that the source of psychologism was the idea that no objective treatment of the logic of ampliative inference was possible — together with the desire for a logic which treats all forms of inference in a systematic fashion — he set out to provide an appropriate definition of truth , and of validity , and thus to offer a systematic objective foundation for logic . |
| 33 | In April two students from this school stood back to let an elderly disabled woman enter the Post Office before them and in June another student , who I am glad to say had been with us only two weeks , was spotted by two seniors through the window of the tap room of the Throstle 's Nest , helping a blind woman across the road . |
| 34 | Surprisingly the remaining ‘ Whads ’ , Holt T. , Sheppey S. , Rawlings G. , Sheppey R. , Sheppey V. , and Rawlings D. , held out to secure an astonishing 2–0 draw in the Bridge 's favour . |
| 35 | Because of this discomfort he set about developing an air-cushioned sole with his engineer friend Herbert Funck . |
| 36 | But perhaps the biggest thing in popular music took place in 1948 when the LP was introduced ; an innovation of immense importance for the industry and public alike , and not least for Leonard who set about acquiring an enviable collection . |