Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What major good were we producing or did we start producing around nineteen seventy seven ? |
| 2 | A mechanical wound to the cotyledon ( lines 4–6 ) led to a systemic accumulation of pin activity and levels of this activity were identical whether the cotyledon was excised five minutes after wounding or left attached to the plant for 48 hours . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) All other estates , interests , and charges in or over land take effect as equitable interests ; ( 4 ) The estates , interests , and charges which under this section are authorised to subsist or be conveyed or created at law are ( when subsisting or conveyed or created at law ) in this Act referred to as " legal estates , " and have the same incidents as legal estates subsisting at the commencement of this Act ; and the owner of a legal estate is referred to as " an estate owner " and his legal estate is referred to as his estate . |
| 4 | ‘ The third umpire in the umpire 's room can assist the standing umpire , if requested , in immediately determining a run out , stumping or hit wicket decision when the standing umpire is uncertain in those three situations , ’ Bacher said . |
| 5 | The position of each piece in space can be disturbed slightly or grossly to give , respectively , either positional tolerance checking or exploded views . |
| 6 | Despite all the scheming and matchmaking that went on behind the scenes , when Charles and Diana took their wedding vows on 29 July 1981 , they were undoubtedly in love . |
| 7 | He told me later that he had only been a guard for fifteen months , also that the normal takings on this section of the line were approximately £10 , so he was only too pleased to work out a 26% discount for a group booking that realised BR £77.35 from our party . |
| 8 | It was night now and I turned for home , an awestruck child again , but joyful in the new world of understanding that had supplanted the dark , African fears . |
| 9 | In addition , they said they appreciated the sense of acceptance , trust and understanding that emerged in the group . |
| 10 | OOH-ER , looks like someone 's been trying a spot of stunt driving that led to a Mini being made even mini-er against a thick brick wall . |
| 11 | And then the wailing that went up and the curses that fell as the roof came off . |
| 12 | I stopped walking and stared wide-eyed as the rest of the senescent strollers proceeded out of this dimension . |
| 13 | Adam stopped walking and stared at her . |
| 14 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 15 | I was out walking and forgot the time . ’ |
| 16 | When she heard Matthew 's name , Miss Havisham stopped walking and stood looking at the speaker , who suddenly became silent . |
| 17 | She stopped walking and stood still , folding her arms resolutely across her chest . |
| 18 | As the guns were still being fired , a Syrian tank came lunging up the shattered street where we had just been walking and entered the tiny square . |
| 19 | Sulking and hurt . |
| 20 | By searching a data file containing all the piece-part " boxes " for geometric domains , the simple relationship between parts can be established ; the boxes can be shown to be remote , adjacent , interfering and inserted . |
| 21 | He drew deeply on the cigarette — hand-rolled , Matthew could not help noticing and hoped no-one else had — in his holder . |
| 22 | It was not even as noble and hopeless as tilting at windmills ; she was blindfolded by not understanding and whirled towards every sound — Lucy 's voice , laugh , profile , light footfall : all worn by unknowing everyday strangers . |
| 23 | Cornelius swung open the parlour door without knocking and strode into the room . |
| 24 | The pupils standing outside burst in to see what was happening and crowded around the empty cage . |
| 25 | There were dozens of them and they would have overpowered the future king had not a band of Chracian hunters seen what was happening and intervened . |
| 26 | He had performed the last rites earlier , when Patrick was at least half aware , and perhaps even knew what was happening and assented to it . |
| 27 | Fortunately I realized what was happening and went to our Old Town doctor , who had some serious things to say about this method she considered Germanic , and we were sent to St Helen 's Hospital for a minor operation and a re-think . |
| 28 | They were closer now to whatever was happening and heard very distinctly the heavy fall on the steel deck , the clatter of a falling rifle and the choking gasp . |
| 29 | She crept quietly down to find out what was happening and heard her 5-year-old girl tell her 3-year-old brother to open the fridge and get out some chocolate . |
| 30 | I filled it up and I was walking out the door as if nothing was happening and got arrested . |