Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If introduced , it would be a boost right through the industry , particularly to breeders who can hopefully keep their operations going in this country . |
| 2 | And there were lots of pretty colours , but — ’ She now looked down towards her hands , her fingers flicking against each other , and after a moment she said , ‘ I fidgeted . |
| 3 | And when Jessie did n't answer , she went on , her words tumbling over each other now , ‘ You 're mad . |
| 4 | I wish him and his friends no evil , ’ said Bishop Jon , shaking down his book-satchel and peering into it , ‘ but it 's a difficult thing to make plans for your country with them sitting there , their heads switching from this shoulder to the other , and so sleek you would think it was a cow that licked them all . |
| 5 | Feverishly they attacked the sea , their eyes straining for any sign of movement in the red-tinged , black water . |
| 6 | They studied each other in the dark car , their faces taut , their eyes glittering over each other . |
| 7 | So I was surprised when at last she started to draw me , her hand moving lightly over the page once more , her eyes flickering with some interest at last . |
| 8 | It 's very hard to spend months in the archives , reading the papers of the people who spent so much of their lives fighting for this kind of thing , and not I think be rather affected by dedication and by the evidence that they amassed with such enormous difficulty , and by the way they kept coming back and fighting for it over and over again , and the free market argument by comparison lacks that kind of humanity I think . |
| 9 | ‘ I would not have expected to accompany you on a romantic walk with your girlfriend , ’ Jenna said hotly , her cheeks flushing at this idea of being relegated to invalidity again . |
| 10 | Masai on the government payroll contentedly drew their salaries and accepted whatever titles were bestowed upon them , but either did nothing or interpreted their duty to be that of spokesmen for their compatriots labouring under some inconvenience inflicted on them by the government . |
| 11 | Her thoughts tumbling over each other like clothes in a drier , Luce followed Michele back to the car . |
| 12 | Thank you Matters arising from that meeting which took place on the thirty first July . |
| 13 | Then , at the edges of her consciousness , outside the explosive heat of the passage of his lips about her neck , of his fingers reaching into some recess of her costume to make her bare flesh tingle , she heard the faint echo of Hector 's bark . |
| 14 | Eubank resisted attempts to be draw on whether he resented the prospect of some of his taxes going into another property , the repair of Windsor Castle . |
| 15 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 16 | The car swung to the right and pulled on to the verge , and he swung towards Caroline , his eyes blazing with such anger that she had to keep from cringing into the corner . |
| 17 | Pipkin sat trembling under a fern , his ears drooping on either side of his head . |
| 18 | He thought he might as well look over his skiing equipment , instead of listening to his parents snapping at each other . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's right , ’ he coaxed in a satin-smooth voice , his hands exploring with such delicacy that her treacherous body strained for his touch . |
| 20 | Once Blanche saw his hands whirring over each other , she knew there was some hope . |
| 21 | They are sad for Prince Andrew seeing his daughters playing with another man . |
| 22 | Thankful to hear the change in his tone , I responded with a less playful punch , and soon we were on our feet slapping at each other with a wild hilarity , a contest in which inevitably I was the loser . |
| 23 | We had performed the movement so many times , our bodies slipping past each other into a new configuration . |
| 24 | In relation to my experience in the so called western feminist movement , I really feel that race and class is a major impediment to the unity of even us women operating in this country . |