Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore nothing beneath other than cami-knickers , but before they followed her dress he nuzzled her graceful neck , and stroked her striking red hair . |
| 2 | Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’ |
| 3 | Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 4 | In an added postscript , Mr Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 5 | then I noticed them exchanging terse remarks every time my man was facing . |
| 6 | Villa had always been in command , but a combination of poor finishing and fine goalkeeping by David Seaman prevented them taking full advantage . |
| 7 | Unhurriedly he studied her sparking green eyes . |
| 8 | Wakelate left the room , and Cleo heard him making gruff remarks through the privy door on the landing outside . |
| 9 | She heard him making little noises with his lips and tongue as if preparing to speak . |
| 10 | Though it was when I heard her using bad language to my housekeeper and being unwarrantedly rude to Ivo that I decided I 'd had enough of the woman . ’ |
| 11 | After dinner , it being light at that time until midnight , we took our friend into the hotel garden and , for possible use in the film , recorded him shouting German wheel and engine-room orders such as would have been used by Prien during the mission . |
| 12 | Frank Grimwood sat down , watched her making big business of cleaning her spectacles . |
| 13 | Ben called it breaking new ground ; she herself would have put it ‘ widening her scope ’ . |
| 14 | It saved me doing temporary work which I do n't much care for . ’ |
| 15 | I 've taken the pineapple and banana pattern and knitted it using various buttons and changing the position of the point cams . |
| 16 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 17 | Tongues of flame from a fire-eater near by lit Meredith 's porcelain face with a golden glow and set her tumbling red waves ablaze on her shoulders . |