Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This analysis of the history of the visitors ' jurisdiction before 1873 makes it quite clear , in our judgment , that when the judges were sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred they were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts . |
| 2 | ‘ He may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses . |
| 3 | I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts . |
| 4 | I called and asked what was happening to my appeal . |
| 5 | I looked across at Mum and found she was looking at Mrs Danby with an expression I did not recognize . |
| 6 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 7 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 8 | Then , came Peter 's most frightening moment : ‘ We were sent out in a Land Rover and told we were driving through enemy territory . ’ |
| 9 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 10 | ‘ He flew back today and heard I was working for you , so he — ’ |
| 11 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 12 | Again she heard herself say , ‘ that' , and then she managed to stammer , ‘ w … was my sister , ’ before the floating feeling overcame her and she-knew she was falling into somewhere . |
| 13 | I could make neither head nor tail of it and decided I was dealing with a bunch of idiots . |
| 14 | But then she saw his eyes staring emptily ahead of him , and knew he was walking in his sleep . |
| 15 | She was still there some time later , gazing sightlessly through the glass over the snow-covered fields beyond , when she felt a strange tingle in the back of her neck , and knew he was standing behind her . |
| 16 | Constance heard Louise on the telephone and knew she was talking to Nora . |
| 17 | Michael 's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess . |
| 18 | I said I reckoned she got her oar in first and thought I 'm gon na |
| 19 | ‘ The policeman saw the car coming straight towards him , and thought he was going to be hit , and had to pull in to the side of the road . |
| 20 | and thought he was gon na wi , how much you got there ? |
| 21 | The testers presented themselves at factory gates , the minority one first and the other about half an hour later , and said they were looking for work . |
| 22 | She wrote to Carrie and Nick and said she was living in a boarding house in a street near the docks , in a dark little room that smelt of kippers . |
| 23 | She concentrated on the one with the trousers and said she was looking for George . |
| 24 | She made her get into bed and said she was sending for the blue ladies right away . |
| 25 | She pushed her mug away from her and said she was going to bed . |
| 26 | Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool . |
| 27 | The police , having interviewed working colleagues of the victim at the London Docks , had elicited information to the effect that at the end of his shift he met two men outside the gates and said he was going for a drink with them . |
| 28 | Military sources named the pilot as Major Adel Bassem , 34 , and said he was co-operating with his Israeli debriefers . |
| 29 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 30 | The best debate in Britain this year took place at the Conservative Party conference when speaker after speaker analysed and criticised what was happening to the economy . |