Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They admitted interfering with her gold teeth , but denied she was kept prisoner , made to sleep on the floor with only two sheets and kept without food . |
| 2 | The arrangement ended on 1 January when the Soviet Union ceased trading with its former allies on a convertible rouble basis . |
| 3 | Nigel had begun to hate the Scots since being starved and caught flashing by them , but Dr Lange was different . |
| 4 | The red light on the phone console stopped flashing as whoever sought his attention tired of waiting . |
| 5 | I stopped eating on my return from the summer camp mentioned earlier . |
| 6 | An inquest has opened on a brilliant student found hanging in her room at an Oxford college . |
| 7 | By Paul Byrne A PREGNANT woman found hanging in her garage had vowed that her husband 's woman friend would move into their home : ‘ Over my dead body . ’ |
| 8 | A CLERGYMAN found hanging in his garage had suffered from depression for several years , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 9 | He tried drawing in his stomach and straightening his shoulders , as instructed by the physical education teacher . |
| 10 | The only comfortable position was standing up because then the fluid drained away and stopped pressing against his lungs . |
| 11 | Everything Golitsin claimed could be proved or disproved according to which set of arguments one wishes to accept . |
| 12 | When it stopped bouncing on what were left of its shock absorbers , I tried to get the driver 's door open but it , and the passenger door , were jammed shut . |
| 13 | She was half way up Stanley Street before she recovered and her heart stopped sinking in her breast . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I think it 's high time you stopped looking like something out of the last century , do n't you , my sweet ? ’ her stepmother said . |
| 15 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |
| 16 | I could hear foreign voices raised in the kitchen and stopped listening to my companions . |
| 17 | When her daughter Selina married Alexander Cowley , an optician , she found lodging with them , earning money as a dressmaker ; it was in their house in Skidmore Street , Mile End , that she died in January 1873 , aged sixty-seven . |
| 18 | You get Ann , senile dementia , they had to get the taps off the gas fire because she kept turning it on and off without it being lit again , found wandering in her nightclothes , injustice , and then we found Eileen , who was in an upstairs room , yes she enjoyed that life for about five years , great council house then she had an accident and then because she could n't re-house her , she was a virtual prisoner inside her own home that she 'd made up . |
| 19 | I wanted to join up , like you — I even tried lying about my age , but I did n't have any luck . ’ |
| 20 | And when I had put these into a plastic bag that I found lying beside them under the dressing-table , I put my hand on her shoulder , about to shake her . |
| 21 | Talking of the management , er how do you think their attitude changed going through your experience er of negotiation , over the years you were at ? |
| 22 | He stopped fretting about his life and about the future , about what was good or bad in it . |
| 23 | I then filled in a little with some alchemilla flower sprays and some very pretty reddish-grey fronds of grass which I found growing on our compost heap ! |
| 24 | She was forever busily seeking out new gratifications , forever unaware of the weasel he always discerned nestling in her skull . |
| 25 | ‘ Speaking of manners , ’ Belinda herself put in suddenly , in a rather small but very firm voice , ‘ I think it would be polite if you both stopped speaking about me as if I was n't here ! ’ |
| 26 | Charlotte Mason regarded teaching as her vocation from her early adolescence . |
| 27 | Such pictures she always found calming to her nerves and she had no need of the large net which was hung at the top of the staircase , to catch those distracted adolescents who attempted suicide in the converted country house where she received her education . |
| 28 | Words that flayed and scorched coming from her lips . |
| 29 | GEMMA Gibson , the 11-year-old found fending for herself while her mother was on holiday in Spain , is to remain in the care of Hammersmith Council for the time being , after a High Court hearing yesterday . |
| 30 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |