Example sentences of "[v-ing] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Member for Livingston can promise his hon. Friends nothing about money , he could not prevent that from happening if he returned to the old system . |
| 2 | He was still praying when he got in the water . |
| 3 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 5 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 6 | She could hear her three- year-old son Rufus laughing as he played on the swings nearby . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 8 | Seagram 's victory in the 1991 Grand National was an extraordinary coincidence occurring as it did in the final year of the company 's sponsorship of the race . |
| 9 | ‘ Who was driving when it went past the pub ? ’ |
| 10 | I could n't help noticing as I walked up the path . |
| 11 | They needed no second bidding but rode as fast as they could , not pausing until they thundered through the half-open gate of Godstowe Priory , putting the porter into such serious agitation he appeared almost sober for once . |
| 12 | This is precisely what Robson , Jennings , and Willis were advocating since they argued for the rationalization of our haphazard arrangements for tribunals with an appellate jurisdiction vested in an administrative appeal tribunal which would be separate from the High Court . |
| 13 | Turning from him , she pulled her blanket up to her shoulders and tried to recline her seat , frowning as she hunted for the button . |
| 14 | Fran glanced back at the heap of cuttings , frowning as she sorted through the pile . |
| 15 | Penry stood at the foot of the stairs , frowning as she plugged in the transistor to listen to Radio Four while she ate . |
| 16 | His eyes were glinting as he thought about the revenge he could have on the Islington people . |
| 17 | A car was coming up the track at high speed , creaking and groaning as it went over the bumps . |
| 18 | Jean-Claude hurried me along , his expression sweetening when we crossed into the Arab streets . |
| 19 | She settled the old lady on a stretcher near the door , so that she could see the sunlit complex , and the happy holidaymakers laughing and shouting as they played in the pool , their conversations a mixture of Spanish and English . |
| 20 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 21 | Death he did not fear , pride he did not possess ; he had no position or property , living as he did in a tub . |
| 22 | But many people wondered why Mr Peairs had used quite so powerful a weapon , and why he had not simply fired it into the air ; or why , living as he did in a relatively safe middle-class suburb , he had been so scared . |
| 23 | She knew her hands were trembling as she fiddled with a pen on the desk . |
| 24 | Across the water , the loud hailers were blaring and squealing as they had in the winter , when Tzani-bey had caught and herded the Order . |
| 25 | Although I knew I probably should n't , I could n't help looking as he rummaged through the marvellous things in the cupboard . |
| 26 | I heard a terrible pounding in my ears , my heart thudding like a drum , my stomach lurching as I swung on the end of the rope . |
| 27 | He Was stumbling as he walked across the landing . |
| 28 | He was still grinning when they rode into the camp which had been built by the Moi in a bend of the slow-flowing river . |
| 29 | On Hazely Peat Moor Bill waited for me , grinning as I slogged through the heather in the heat . |
| 30 | ‘ Your Aunt Belle never stopped going until she fell off the mule . |