Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
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 .

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