Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What major good were we producing or did we start producing around nineteen seventy seven ? |
| 2 | He drew deeply on the cigarette — hand-rolled , Matthew could not help noticing and hoped no-one else had — in his holder . |
| 3 | She crept quietly down to find out what was happening and heard her 5-year-old girl tell her 3-year-old brother to open the fridge and get out some chocolate . |
| 4 | Then she guessed what was happening and shut her eyes , feeling disgusted and frightened . |
| 5 | He was dying and implored you to agree to the match because he and Horatia 's father were such old friends . |
| 6 | He knew he was dying and retained his dignity to the end ; it came on 13 March 1967 , and the cricketing world , quite simply , was devastated . |
| 7 | Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there . |
| 8 | And he burst out laughing and said you 're quite right madam , they were police . |
| 9 | He asked her , smiling over the top of his glass , if she had ever been to bed with a man and when she said ‘ not exactly ’ he had burst out laughing and touched her cheek with one strong brown hand . |
| 10 | ‘ It was n't — I didn't- ’ Then she saw me laughing and flopped her hands forward in a gesture of relief . |
| 11 | He burst out laughing and put his arm around her shoulder . |
| 12 | He asked Blanche what was happening but discovered her gaze was locked on the other side of the room . |
| 13 | on completing that did you notice anyone there , did you hear anyone in the bedroom ? |
| 14 | He collapsed forward again in a fit of coughing that racked his whole body . |
| 15 | Many women have started smoking or increased their consumption . |
| 16 | It was the sound of voices shouting that woke me the next morning . |
| 17 | Then I remembered the £500-worth of photographic gear in my fishing bag , and the thought of damaging that galvanised me into action . |
| 18 | It was n't only the pain fitzAlan must be enduring that worried her . |
| 19 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 20 | I 've woken up and found myself shouting and woke my , wake woke myself up I wake myself up . |
| 21 | He heard his voice shouting and lowered it carefully . |
| 22 | He could see her lip trembling and hoped she would not cry in public again . |
| 23 | He maintained an interest in acting and adopted his mother 's name , Walcott , when he appeared as the black merchant-navy boy in the film A Taste of Honey . |
| 24 | The sergeant followed him in and found him smoking and put him on a discipline charge — idling his time . |
| 25 | IRENE Boyd took the minutes when our branch held a staff meeting and typed them out in the following verse : |
| 26 | I located a couple of book reviews I had done on matters to do with the period , one about writers of the thirties , the other about the Mass Observation project , added a letter in which I wrote a little about the book I was writing and sent them off . |
| 27 | Aung San overcame his plea that he just wanted to go on writing and brought him to Rangoon . |
| 28 | Faint-hearted , they took his essays back for remarking and upgraded them , as an airline always will a seat for a vociferous passenger . |
| 29 | She was still trembling but wore her defiant look again . |
| 30 | Downey admitted shouting but said it was on the spur of the moment and he meant no disrespect to anybody . |