Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [v-ing] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced at her left hand as if she 'd forgotten the fact , and was instantly ashamed to find herself wishing she had n't been wearing the showy diamond solitaire . |
| 2 | He looked her over with swift assessment , and , ridiculously , she found herself wishing she had worn something less revealing than the shorts , but it was too late to do anything about it now . |
| 3 | And then she found herself wondering what had prompted her to utter remarks concerning his private affairs . |
| 4 | She found herself regretting she 'd not been entirely open with him . |
| 5 | But on spying Mitchell 's cherubic features , the proprietor refused to serve him saying he had received instructions by ‘ phone not to . |
| 6 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 7 | she said that and she said she do n't mind us swearing she said I 'll leave you fourteen , it actually says twenty tapes in the , bits of paper but she said if you could fill twenty I 'd be over the moon did she say ? |
| 8 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 9 | I 've I , when I heard you saying you recognized his voice I thought to myself well perhaps he 's sort of inviting you to er , whatever ! |
| 10 | Danny Brady claims he was bundled out of his room by a gang of 6 men , one of whom threatened him saying he did karate . |
| 11 | Luke spent it wishing he had never come , dreading tea , dreading having to say he did n't mind , that it was quite OK , he quite saw , should n't have asked … |
| 12 | How he would take to having somebody prying she dared not think . |
| 13 | I did n't want him thinking I 'd only fired in self-defence . |
| 14 | When he saw me running he thought he must be late , and he started to run , too . |
| 15 | He ca n't have talked to them for long , as soon as he saw me coming he cleared off quick . |
| 16 | And my Grandmother certainly would n't have wanted me going She had er her feet very firmly on the ground . |
| 17 | Mr Tweddle said the driver parked while his wife went into a shop and when he saw her returning he started the car and reversed . |
| 18 | Picking her way through the guests , she eventually found him talking to Edward , but when he saw her approaching he left his host and came to meet her . |
| 19 | When Julie saw her coming she ran off over the road . |
| 20 | But I did n't want anyone thinking I had been unfaithful to Alan . ’ |
| 21 | The senator paused to light his first Havana of the day and as he got it going he studied the matted vegetation of the riverbank through its smoke . |
| 22 | He took it home last night I w I got it going I got the time on it but I |
| 23 | He replaced Ye Xuanping who had been elected to the largely honorific post of Vice-Chair of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference in early April [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 24 | When friends tried to stop him driving he fell and sustained fatal head injuries . |
| 25 | ‘ I left him examining what appeared to be the remains of a cemetery . |
| 26 | And I made them jigs and whatnot. when they come to do it at Dolgarrog when they come to want them doing I said to the to the the chief engineer I said , he told me about they were going get these commutators done here machine . |
| 27 | It lasts for around five minutes and you ca n't work out exactly what it 's selling , but it leaves you wishing it carried on for hours . |