Example sentences of "no [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer hiding behind the screen memories , the stories told to us by others , we began to unpick our social and psychic formations , within the support and containment , permission-giving and encouragement to take risks which we offered to each other . |
| 2 | Her hair , Dexter noticed , was matt and streaked with grey , no longer glistening with the aid of a back light in the studio . |
| 3 | That was easy ; no longer slipping on the glass , she glided out through the empty doorway , into the burning ruins . |
| 4 | ‘ The premises are freehold , ’ he continued , not responding to my comment , but at least no longer leaning on the counter . |
| 5 | Certainly the foreman was no longer leaning against the door-jamb ; he was standing properly now , arms unfolded . |
| 6 | As we move into our twenties and thirties , hormones are no longer racing through the body like the clappers and , from time to time , the penis is more likely to cause embarrassment by its lack of activity than by its exuberance . |
| 7 | When I got to London Chrissie was no longer working in the shop . |
| 8 | Stark was no longer lying in the mud . |
| 9 | But Dottie was no longer talking about the murder . |
| 10 | That was particularly true now that land values were no longer inflating at the rate of the last decade or so . |
| 11 | The world which He had made was no longer going in the way that He wanted . |
| 12 | Are they pieces of parent body that broke up and sent a special type of debris into a path crossing the orbit of the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago but which is no longer falling on the Earth ? |
| 13 | Finally , of those informally admitted , the majority of women were no longer contributing to the running of the household . |