Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aston Villa winger Dwight Yorke admitted speeding in a 50mph zone on the A38 through Birmingham . |
| 2 | Rising real wages made subletting as a means of supplementing income less essential and , among the unemployed , the household means test made letting rooms a more difficult proposition . |
| 3 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 4 | Caspar stopped sniffing in a bracken tunnel and came bounding back towards Philip . |
| 5 | THE husband of a heavily-pregnant woman found hanging in a garage told one of her friends that he used to be a backing guitarist for Eric Clapton , a court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | AN INQUEST has opened into the death of a man found hanging in a playground . |
| 7 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 8 | At first , the Sisters themselves tried knocking in a few nails or propping up walls with staves . |
| 9 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 10 | Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night . |
| 11 | Pairs of multiple step ladders or trestles can be bridged with purpose designed staging as a basic form of scaffolding . |
| 12 | That incident probably made John 's triumph all the sweeter a few months later , when he gleefully described flirting with a particularly desirable man , one of the supposed ringleaders of the earlier occasion . |
| 13 | There is nothing God-given about any particular system of measurement ; intelligent life on another planet might easily have evolved a method of assessing people 's incomes which involved multiplying by a fixed amount for each increment . |
| 14 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
| 15 | Making matters worse there were slip ups too when she tried miming to a backing tape . |
| 16 | The standard rose is really a bush rose growing on a single stem . |
| 17 | He dismissed conducting as a phoney profession , responsible for turning players into mindless dependents , powerless without the hypnotic beat of a little white stick in front of them . |
| 18 | I have the greatest sympathy for hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , but there is a principle involved and it is about time that my right hon. and learned Friend stopped speaking as a lawyer and started acting as a politician . |
| 19 | Shlomo Green stopped speaking for a moment . |
| 20 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 21 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |
| 22 | Some of the guinea pigs stopped running for a week after a competitive marathon , while a second group jogged lightly for about 30 minutes every day the week after the race . |
| 23 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 24 | One associate reported dealing with a mother in the Hull area who had refused to surrender her seven-year-old son to her coven . |
| 25 | But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer . |
| 26 | ‘ Then it 's high time you stopped behaving like a child , young lady , ’ her father said . |
| 27 | He pulled at his Mum 's coat and she stopped talking for a minute . |
| 28 | A woman slashed from jaw to groin found floating in a ditch . |
| 29 | The two claimed they were engaged , since an lranian woman caught talking to a man not related to her by blood or marriage is considered a prostitute . |
| 30 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |