Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked while cutting up a British Telecom van — rather niftily I thought . |
| 2 | That was the point I made when responding to the intervention of the hon. Member for Swansea , East , when I mentioned section 12(1) of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 3 | The stairs were my usual route to the ‘ hell-hole ’ in which I lived and walking up them I had to dodge numerous heaps of ‘ gunk ’ . |
| 4 | Just occasionally , textual fossils come into their own again , as I experienced when writing this book . |
| 5 | ‘ I found that delivering babies was exciting and a bit scary , but I noticed that the environment was not comfortable for women . |
| 6 | I found that raising the volume helped to improve the realism but I would have like more presence and crisper definition . |
| 7 | I had never done anything like that in my life , but I found that having to do it was in the end very exciting because you have to rely on the Lord and he supplies help in unforgettable ways . |
| 8 | The single most difficult thing I found when using the Grafpad was to remember whether I was drawing on the screen or mapping the attributes . |
| 9 | ‘ People say I must regret joining United , but I 'm still pleased I came because working for Dave has been a great learning experience , ’ said Marwood . |
| 10 | It also feared that a coalition with the anti-fascist forces might create similar problems to those which the Labour government of 1929–3 I faced when relying upon Liberal support to carry out a legislative programme . |
| 11 | I discovered that sitting very still for as long as possible was the first great secret . |
| 12 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 13 | I intended to explore the ways in which major English writers of the sixteenth century created their own performances , to analyze the choices they made in representing themselves and in fashioning characters … but as my work progressed , I perceived that fashioning oneself and being fashioned by cultural institutions — family , religion , state — were inseparably intertwined . |
| 14 | The wish to defend European freedom and democracy was central to Britain 's attitude towards the EEC and , as I have said , comprised one of the chief arguments which I deployed when campaigning for a ‘ Yes ’ vote in 1975 . |
| 15 | With UAPT 's area files , only information about the named subject of the inquiry and their spouse , and information about someone recorded as living under a closely comparable name very close by , is passed . |
| 16 | I decided that aiming my camera at the TV set was just as reasonable as aiming it out the window " ( ART news , Jan. 1986 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ In my work I am involved in life and death situations so , on the scale of things , I decided that losing an election was not a matter for heartbreak . ’ |
| 18 | Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist . |
| 19 | I felt that falling in love with you at that stage would very definitely not be a good idea . ’ |
| 20 | But I knew they came from my convict , and I felt that having criminal friends made me more common than ever . |
| 21 | You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away . |
| 22 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 23 | I agreed to marriage counselling but only if I could go alone , although I knew that going alone was a bit like filing fiddled expenses . |
| 24 | I got the job at and I 'd had e I 'd had experience , I knew that going to was no problem . |
| 25 | From the start I knew that finding Domitila Barrios de Chungara and Higon Cussi was not going to be easy . |
| 26 | I kept hugging myself as I imagined over and over telling Marcus what I knew and reassuring him that it would n't make any difference to us . |
| 27 | Erm to my self respect and I just I was determined that it was n't going to happen to my daughter , so in consequence I saw that working on the side to get to get the uniform so that she could go to school in a new uniform same as all the other kids as a necessity . |
| 28 | I laughed and taking out a handkerchief , quickly wiped my face . |
| 29 | It is usually held in October or November and I thought that holding it today perhaps heralded better news or that we were on the brink of a breakthrough or a decision . |
| 30 | I thought that controlling rebellious minorities was a step that all countries would have to take , but I found that if people discuss and compromise then most disagreements can be solved quite easily . |