Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 2 | But it is also necessary to avoid keeping them standing outside in the rain , or waiting in draughty corridors feeling unwanted while the meal finishes or the speeches are in progress . |
| 3 | Gnasher ( my hamster ) used to like to roam freely throughout the living room but unfortunately this involved him crapping all over the carpet . |
| 4 | When Nell did n't reply , he turned to see if she had heard him ; found her staring fixedly at the sign . |
| 5 | She 's only shopping today because of a family crisis stopped her doing so in the week . |
| 6 | He imagined her waiting pathetically by the phone . |
| 7 | Now imagine it flying away into the distance and think about where it is going . |
| 8 | It is said that if you visit the Mermaid Pool of Derbyshire just before dawn , you will see them swimming gracefully in the dark waters below . |
| 9 | I was still carrying the child , but now I could see you riding away into the distance . |
| 10 | He could remember him complaining once in the café to William 's grandad . |
| 11 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |
| 12 | It seems difficult to imagine it translating even across the Mersey . |
| 13 | It had receded on a faint wave of sound , but it was possible to imagine it working hard against the up-grade of the Withcall tunnel cutting . |
| 14 | As results get worse , I still manage to bluff the board into believing I have a long-term strategy that will see us pulling away from the bottom within weeks . |
| 15 | She heard him running lightly down the stairs , and breathed a long sigh of relief . |
| 16 | Late that night both Millet and Throgmorton heard him going upstairs to the top of one of the towers of the chateau . |
| 17 | They heard him battering furiously at the panels and shouting hoarsely : ‘ What do you want with him ? |
| 18 | He was a quadraplegic , confined to a wheelchair , but this did n't stop him travelling all over the world . |
| 19 | Behind them , they heard her murmuring anxiously to the little boy . |
| 20 | Every day they took us out and set us crawling all over the tube from outside , scraping the micrometeorite dust off the glass . |
| 21 | Apparently you could hear them shouting all round the college . |
| 22 | Do you have them going right to the edge ? |
| 23 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 24 | James watched me prodding away at the knitting for a while , and I sensed his helplessness . |
| 25 | An ideal adventure for beginners , this one should have you plugging away till the wee small hours of the morning . |
| 26 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 27 | He could hear her coughing half-way along the passage . |
| 28 | Angel watched her moving freely in the air like a swimmer on a wave . |
| 29 | Then he was gone and she watched him striding away down the street . |
| 30 | I turned in surprise to Neil , to see him pointing away from the bay towards where , in a cloud of spray , a powerful-looking launch was heading fast towards us . |