Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | He found him chatting with two soldiers , and sharing their bottle of whisky . |
2 | The visiting officer found him living in one room which was almost entirely filled by a double bed . |
3 | mm , I heard her talking to one of the lads , I think the dark hair , short , what 's his name ? |
4 | Speights , the country 's foremost brewery , started it rolling with five guineas . |
5 | I met him returning from one of the Penn ponds with the largest pike of the year swinging by his side and a look of sheer elation on his face . |
6 | OK it had the batteries stuck in with sticky tape , but it kept me going through fifteen Agatha Christies and hundreds of hours of revision — well , pretend revision . |
7 | It was just that the man he went to see kept him waiting from nine o'clock until almost ten . |
8 | Le Tissier went on a run that took him ghosting past two defenders only for Baker to save . |
9 | Then I saw him looking in one of the restaurant windows , keeping himself kind of flattened up against the wall . ’ |
10 | No sooner did he reach York than he resurrected the York Quarterly and kept it going for five years and nineteen numbers , with the arms of the see on the outer cover , and underneath , ‘ Editor : the Archbishop of York ’ . |
11 | I took the dramatic Poem Maud by Tennyson — all fourteen hundred lines — and learnt them and presented them working with two friends , a designer and a lighting man . |
12 | The Tokay Clos Jebsal 1988 ( £14.25 ) has a raisiny richness and a pure , clean voluptuousness which had me drooling at two recent tastings . |
13 | He left me struggling with 4,000 owing on loans — and two children to bring up . |
14 | That , to get gloomy , left me brooding on two other things . |
15 | Mrs. Oxley concluded her reading with three poignant poems about her son that she wrote herself . |
16 | They clocked him doing between 110 and 114 mph on the M40 at Waterperry last October . |