Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then there was plenty of work for them but then when the erm , the one man buses really got going and they introduced the night safe on the buses , the ticket office was cut drastically , they did n't need to have all this information . |
| 32 | But then me and Emma got going and we got a bit drunk and we just said anything and it was really embarrassing . |
| 33 | Her nerve snapped and she turned rising as she did so , her hands coming up in defence . |
| 34 | But when they saw Paul Holloway walking towards them in a Bournemouth park they began shouting that he looked like Boris Becker and began jostling him . |
| 35 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 36 | She swung her shapely legs inside and began talking as he switched on the ignition . |
| 37 | ‘ I 'm annoyed about that , it was only when I began touring that I heard about it , ’ she told the BBC 's top children 's programme Going Live . |
| 38 | She began screaming and he punched her in the face and ran off . |
| 39 | They finished skimming and he said to her softly : |
| 40 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 41 | Many of the musicians were unused to working with dancers and once when the band was out of tempo , the Girls started singing as they danced to get the music synchronized . |
| 42 | The boilerhouse bridge needed repairing before it pitched us all into the river . |
| 43 | off when we went bingo and I was smoking John started coughing and you think it 's got to be these fags cos you do n't normally cough |
| 44 | ‘ Some needed reminding that we expected them to honour their word . ’ |
| 45 | It was the name she started using when she left home . ’ |
| 46 | And they all started laughing and I wondered what they were laughing at . |
| 47 | I do n't know why they started laughing and she started laughing and her laughing 's like |
| 48 | And he says nineteen sixty two when I started reffing and he said the oth they 're not I 'm not giving them this one but these two are for the other mascot scene . |
| 49 | Ali himself has acknowledged this : ‘ I started boxing because I thought this was the fastest way for a black person to make it in this country ’ ( quoted by Torres , 1971 , p.83 ) . |
| 50 | If the first two rows started barfing when I took my shirt off , I would n't do it again … ’ |
| 51 | The number of places which needed guarding and which required the presence of a person of authority meant that , in some cases , men of military talent and experience , but not necessarily of high birth , were given positions of considerable responsibility . |
| 52 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 53 | For one thing I learned to cope with it better and then , well , I started growing and nobody singled me out for ridicule any more . |
| 54 | ‘ I was beside myself with fear , and started panicking as she did n't seem to be able to swim . |
| 55 | Lucy 's heart gave a wild jump and started racing as she listened . |
| 56 | But it was n't until the sawdust started flying that I remembered , my drink ! |
| 57 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 58 | So hearing there was computer classes here , he started coming and he did n't like it and he stopped . |
| 59 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 60 | Bursts with crime books on every possible felon and atrocity , which Cam Wolff started collecting when she retired as a Marks & Spencer hygienist . |