Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 2 | The world is full of stray cats , many of them searching hopefully for a new home . |
| 3 | And the two of them working together over a long time , they would work |
| 4 | Pictures were flashed around the world of the two of them cavorting recklessly on a beach . |
| 5 | Without moving his eyes away from her dark head he oscillated between the image of the pure lady accepting the spoon , or at least the rose , and the idea of her calling out in a thrashing orgasm of female pleasure as he spurted and spurted in ecstatic triumph on top of her . |
| 6 | Solicitors acting for the Princess of Wales have demanded that secret photographs of her working out in a gym should be handed over and that she should be given details of how much money was made from them . |
| 7 | She 's obviously desperate to hold onto her No. 1 ranking and absenteeism begs the question of her shying away from a confrontation with Graf for fear of losing her ranking points lead . |
| 8 | She dreamed of him hurtling along in an open roadster , smiling at a blonde head and two scarlet-nailed hands spinning the wheel , reckless on the deep-banked lanes near the summer school . |
| 9 | One cottage I stayed in without electricity or water saw 11 of us standing eagerly over a one-ring Calor gas burner in the morning waiting for a kettle to boil for coffee , when one of our party came into the kitchen , picked up the kettle and took it into the bathroom to wash his face . |
| 10 | It 's not like us nipping down for a pint with the vicar ! ’ |
| 11 | Before he came along we 'd mess around with songs like ‘ Build Me Up Buttercup ’ , with me fiddling around on a little clavinet that we 'd found knocking around somewhere and Steve singing . |
| 12 | What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all . |
| 13 | ‘ The weather 's not improving , and with us wallowing around like a drunken whale we 've taken heavy seas over the stern . |
| 14 | She told the Liverpool inquest that on March 9 this year they had argued about her going out for a drink with some friends in the city centre . |
| 15 | The one good thing was the Australian pair finally making up their minds to come , the wife 's partners having agreed to her taking up to a year 's sabbatical . |
| 16 | She was not looking forward to her coming out as an Italian girl , but she was determined not to let herself get married early . |
| 17 | The stream , on its way to join the River Ure , has its origins on Abbotside Common and passes through the small hidden village of Cotterdale , a community unseen and unsuspected from the main road , the only access to it branching off as a gated strip of tarmac . |
| 18 | ‘ I finally agreed to it coming out in a limited edition . |