Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 2 | I also realized I was going to be OK . |
| 3 | When I realized I was walking towards my father 's house I quickly changed my direction . |
| 4 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 5 | I realised I was going to be nicked . |
| 6 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 7 | A firm , insistent hand between my shoulder-blades pushed me further into the room ; my feet moved , but my body refused to follow and I realised I was standing at an angle . |
| 8 | She also mentioned I was going to the dentist next week ( correct ) , I would travel often ( debatable ) and that I would still end up with a lot of money ( probably wrong ) . |
| 9 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 10 | Actually , it just happened because I found I was engaging with people who had similar interests to myself . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've heard so many stories about him and all the good he did , and my dad was delighted when he found I was working with Sarah because she was his granddaughter . ’ |
| 12 | I looked across at Mum and found she was looking at Mrs Danby with an expression I did not recognize . |
| 13 | Apart from a handful of friends that were his own age , like Nicholas Soames and Lord Romsey — who were still fourteen or fifteen years Diana 's senior — most of the people Charles enjoyed seeing were older , with the result that Diana frequently found she was socializing with her father 's , or even grandfather 's , generation . |
| 14 | And when she found she was putting on some weight , she took up swimming regularly . |
| 15 | She found she was bursting for a pee , but was determined not to repeat Estelle 's performance . |
| 16 | erm to make the most of the holiday , and then found she was working in the sh in the middle . |
| 17 | Alexandra stood up , found she was standing on her own hem , bobbed a little to release herself and confronted a large , commanding woman pulling off brown suede gloves . |
| 18 | You used it again when you 'd just got off the train from Paddington tonight , when you pretended you were waiting for Mrs Downes — ’ |
| 19 | Initially we had to start from scratch to find out about drug use and drug users , for we were not even one-eyed kings in this land of the blind ; and we quickly found we were delving into a new and complex social world . |
| 20 | As they uncovered it , they found they were looking at not a human , but an animal . |
| 21 | Frere stood feeling the park sway around him as he panted , and when the dizzy motion stopped he was looking through the brilliant air at a thatched dwelling , snow-laden , secreted among the trees , its dark jetty seized in ice . |
| 22 | Castenada ( 1970 ) , for example , found he was dealing with new events and totally new ways of understanding . |
| 23 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 24 | Instead he found he was looking at a short , rather stout middle-aged man . |
| 25 | But he found he was listening to the sonata through a hiss . |
| 26 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 27 | Luke found he was staring at Jake Endo 's sandals , wondering how much they could possibly have cost . |
| 28 | He found he was walking as a dog walks , its head twisted round to gaze into its master 's face , waiting for a stick to be thrown , wagging its tail . |
| 29 | Looking up , he found he was standing under a short vertical shaft , at the top of which was another trapdoor . |
| 30 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |