Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acting on a hunch , she brought in a low-frequency recorder and found that infrasound was emanating from its forehead . |
| 2 | Then , " I was walking behind the leading lady when she suddenly collapsed and water was dripping on her face . |
| 3 | It meant that philosophy was listening to what theologians were saying — even though it reserved the right to reject the theologian 's arguments . |
| 4 | He felt that time was slipping through his fingers . |
| 5 | ‘ I can understand why my uncle felt that trouble was coming to him here . |
| 6 | But de Gaulle held firm because he knew that time was working in his favour . |
| 7 | We knew that VAT was going to be an issue , but because everything was so vague we found it impossible to draw up detailed plans in advance , which meant that at the last minute we had to commit unbudgeted and unplanned resources to enable us to be ready for January . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Hely Hutchinson said that Headline was looking for UK-based acquisitions that offered quality and enhanced shareholder value . |
| 9 | A spokesman at Monkton-hall said that coal was continuing to be produced in spite of current financial problems , which followed a delay in starting production at the main coal face . |
| 10 | The Centre for Management Buy-out Research said that confidence was returning to the market , though final figures for 1992 indicated only one more MBO in 1992 than in 1991 at 446 , and 12 more MBIs , at 134 . |
| 11 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |