Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [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 | I stopped walking and stared wide-eyed as the rest of the senescent strollers proceeded out of this dimension . |
7 | Adam stopped walking and stared at her . |
8 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
9 | I was out walking and forgot the time . ’ |
10 | When she heard Matthew 's name , Miss Havisham stopped walking and stood looking at the speaker , who suddenly became silent . |
11 | She stopped walking and stood still , folding her arms resolutely across her chest . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Sulking and hurt . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He drew deeply on the cigarette — hand-rolled , Matthew could not help noticing and hoped no-one else had — in his holder . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Cornelius swung open the parlour door without knocking and strode into the room . |
18 | The pupils standing outside burst in to see what was happening and crowded around the empty cage . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I filled it up and I was walking out the door as if nothing was happening and got arrested . |
25 | Minton himself saw what was happening and abandoned this practice around 1951 — 2 . |
26 | Then she guessed what was happening and shut her eyes , feeling disgusted and frightened . |
27 | Fred , drunk though he was , saw what was happening and pushed Arthur toward the Stiltons . |
28 | And one of the things that is happening and mortified when I first came to this company was I could n't see a straight line through . |
29 | In August 1972 , the Provisional IRA discovered what was happening and fired shots into one of the buildings . |
30 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |