Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now she was six feet tall and to the patients she looked like Boadicea with a bedpan ; none of them found her calming , and the sisters regarded her hair with secret fear . |
| 2 | The next day I overheard her telling Mother about how that spasmo ballet company had cancelled the rest of their performances and gone home . |
| 3 | I overheard her telling Delia . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid I overheard you talking . ’ |
| 5 | I amused myself watching all three and rather cruelly thanking God for the poor old General 's disability . |
| 6 | Once I met her carrying several parcels and she called to me . |
| 7 | I met her sitting out on the bench where Michael Willis always sat , water-gazing . |
| 8 | I met her walking up by the castle , great big straw hat , floating veils , general appearance of a female Friar Tuck out for a constitutional . ’ |
| 9 | I met him returning from one of the Penn ponds with the largest pike of the year swinging by his side and a look of sheer elation on his face . |
| 10 | ‘ 84 for 2 , Mr Beesley , ’ I would shout as I passed him snoozing in the sun beneath the gangling wisteria . |
| 11 | Then I got her talking about horses . |
| 12 | Well I got me shopping and it cost me forty summat one . |
| 13 | I got him printing this . |
| 14 | And I got you talking about all the porno magazines . |
| 15 | If I got it lying , where , if I 've got it in the bank and it 's there ready it 's , there 's nay problem is there ? |
| 16 | He took it home last night I w I got it going I got the time on it but I |
| 17 | I got it standing on that brick so it would drain . |
| 18 | I got it coming back from the church as well ! |
| 19 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 20 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 21 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 22 | Somewhere nearby a field of broad beans was in full flower and as the exotic scent drifted across I found myself inhaling with half-closed eyes as though straining to discern the ingredients of the glorious melange . |
| 23 | Lipman 's column in the May issue was fetchingly entitled : ‘ I found myself weeping over an economy-sized box of tampons ’ . |
| 24 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 25 | Yet , however successful in other spheres of my life , when facing my mother I found myself hiding my hurt just when I most needed to express it . |
| 26 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 27 | ‘ This was the first fight I found myself screaming . |
| 28 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 29 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 30 | In the meantime , despite my reservations , I found myself reflecting on headvoice 's idea : I had to admit , it might make a story . |