Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand .
2 Because of the way he was looking , his parted lips , his wondering eyes , she felt desire , a flicker of it , the first sign , the first time for months , a movement like a string being plucked where she thought her womb was .
3 My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been .
4 Nigel had reasoned that , as most washing originated where one divested oneself of one 's dirty clothes and bed linen , i.e. the top floor , it was poor time-and-motion study to have the cleaning apparatus on the ground floor .
5 Newbon disclosed that he told his former managing director a couple of years ago : ‘ I could get Oxford United very cheaply , ’ — but his boss was n't interested .
6 For example one woman set fire to her kitchen accidentally and the carer , her neighbour , realised that it would not be safe for her to remain at home ; another carer , a husband , found himself becoming so stressed that he struck his wife ; he then requested institutional care .
7 He thought he was being attacked so he defended himself .
8 And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together .
9 She had n't forgotten that she owed him taxi money .
10 He had forgotten that he held it in his hand .
11 It was claimed that they poured their drinks over the counter and then smashed their beer glasses .
12 Many would have claimed that it served none , that it was but the result of the Fall and of sin , and that it brought only harm and hurt to the world .
13 A fourth man , said to have provided the bomb , has added that they had nothing to do with it .
14 Several times he almost stopped himself , but it felt so good to be unburdened that he let his tongue defy his better judgement .
15 ‘ You had n't considered that it had nothing to do with you , I suppose ?
16 He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her .
17 On the dashboard in front of him the radio crackled and he picked it up .
18 Her colour deepened and she bit her lip and looked down at her plate .
19 God , he was so gorgeous … her hands were moving on to his strong thoat , thrusting into his black hair , she was losing her head again as the kiss deepened and she heard him give a low growl of harsh excitement , his mouth increasing the pressure until Rachel was obliterated by him , dazed , clutching him with shaking hands , gasping hoarsely against his mouth , feeling his strong hands move swiftly up to her breasts to stroke her nipples and force a long hoarse cry of exquisite desire from her .
20 The Church , the vicar and the Archdeacon and the Bishop all weighed in on Gray 's side so it was quietly dropped and he got his parish here a year later .
21 But skipper Dave Watson revealed : ‘ Tony was disappointed at being dropped and he said what he felt at the time .
22 Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed .
23 huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says
24 I told the guard at the reception desk in the dark , grim entrance why I had come and he told me to wait .
25 It was gone as soon as it had come and he re-established his public gaze .
26 He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose .
27 Shearson was left holding the baby when the music stopped after the buyout : J H Whitney Co , leading the buyout , had persuaded Shearson to put up a bridging loan , and that it would easily be able to sell much of it on ; in the event , the junk bond market collapsed and no-one wanted it .
28 A spokesman for the City 's surveyors department said : ‘ There was an element of confusion after the blast because the Chamber of Shipping building had partially collapsed and we thought there might be similar damage to the Baltic .
29 Lisabeth 's eyes clouded and I knew I 'd done enough .
30 Her foot caught and she wrenched it free of its shoe , clinging to fitzAlan 's hand all the while as he half led , half pulled her upwards .
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