Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 2 | Mrs Healy said that she heard the girls were running and laughing like they had done in Knockglen and they were hit by a car . |
| 3 | According to the conventional wisdom , fusion required great heat and hence could only have happened when the Earth was being formed ; however , if the Earth is five billion years old , all the helium would by now have risen away , yet it was there in amounts suggesting that it had appeared in the atmosphere only recently . |
| 4 | She kept remembering that he had walked in this room , sat in the chairs , eaten at the table . |
| 5 | After the judgment , Price Waterhouse issued a statement saying that it had acted in good faith according to its understanding of the conflict of interest rules at the time . |
| 6 | Paul wrote to Dr Heatherton as he had intended , thanking him for his trouble and saying that he had called in the hope of meeting him . |
| 7 | That Aethelberht , king of Kent , exercised authority over his brother , Eadberht , is clear from the way in which it was necessary for Ealdwulf , bishop of Rochester , to secure confirmation of a grant of land from Eadberht in 738 from Aethelberht and Nothhelm , archbishop of Canterbury , acknowledging that he had erred in not doing so sooner ( CS 159 : S 27 ) , but nothing is said of any necessity to secure Aethelbald 's confirmation . |
| 8 | Hewas so considerate when she lost the baby a year later , overlooking that she had failed in giving him what the nurse reluctantly told her would have been a son . |
| 9 | On March 10 Gustav Just resigned as a Social Democrat ( SPD ) deputy in the Brandenburg parliament after admitting that he had participated in the execution by firing squad of six Ukrainian Jews in July 1941 . |
| 10 | On May 25th he resigned after admitting that he had speculated in the shares of companies associated with Daimler-Benz while sitting on its supervisory board . |
| 11 | They were half open , silently fixing her in a look so intense and piercing that she felt caught in it , as if hypnotized . |
| 12 | Rose was anxious , feeling that he had lived in the stone house with too much responsibility for too long . |