Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had fallen asleep , squatting behind a buttress of the church of St Nicholas long after curfew , my lips blue , my teeth chattering with the cold . |
| 2 | I am thinking about my spectacles lying on the desk before me as I write . |
| 3 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 4 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 5 | But as I sat with my legs dangling over the edge , looking out on to the quiet water meadow , the anarchy of Delhi seemed far away and I began to see why in all the most sensible cultures , Paradise was envisaged as a walled pleasure garden . |
| 6 | To promote and facilitate discussion at school level about the philosophy of the Catholic school ( using my experiences working for the Queensland Catholic Education Commission as a stimulus . ) |
| 7 | ‘ At 18 miles I saw my parents standing in the crowd and this lifted me tremendously . |
| 8 | Of course it is easy to look back now and say , well , would anyone have noticed if I had left my shoes lying around the changing room instead of buckling them up inside my satchel when I changed into my gym kit for classes with the Butcher ? |
| 9 | Miss Jarman went on : ‘ What I wo n't stomach is thieving , hypocrisy , canting men , niggers , or my servants getting into the family way . |
| 10 | my Scholls clacking on the heating-gratings . |
| 11 | As I stood with my hands resting on the stone of the bridge , the door of the hotel was again thrown open . |
| 12 | the structured thought patterns I found that the most important because when I was up at the table on the second presentation I was able to have my thoughts relating to the layout already and with in fact just the single element of the subject shown on my paper I could immediately focus on that and in fact give the details of that right the way through . |
| 13 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 14 | ‘ She was in school uniform but she made such an impact on me I nearly burst my tyres driving along the pavement , ’ Sarah says . |
| 15 | The University clock strikes eleven , its chimes overlapping with the chimes of other clocks , near and far . |
| 16 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 17 | Sligos SA , France 's second largest software and services company , has put all its activities relating to the manufacture of Smart Cards into its Solaic subsidiary . |
| 18 | It was as if they were really desperate and they knickers round their ankles running into the toilet ! |
| 19 | Behind him were a crowd of men and horses ; Hearthwares in full armour , their breaths steaming in the coolness of the morning , Myrcans standing impassively , indifferent to the cold but nodding to Isay as he approached , and a pair of pack mules trying to bite each other 's manes . |
| 20 | You 're supposed to be able to hear its bells ringing under the sea at New Year 's Eve . ’ |
| 21 | His horse spun wildly , but the grypesh held on , one of its claws digging into the leather of the saddle , the other curled round Riven 's calf . |
| 22 | And once he had heard Sweetheart coming down the stairs , her high-heels ringing on the stone steps , and he had thrown the stolen food in Rosie 's corner in a panic . |
| 23 | A long-standing Taiwanese prohibition on its entertainers performing on the mainland was lifted in February 1990 and restrictions on academic exchanges were also eased . |
| 24 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 25 | Large European companies such as Nestle and Nutricia have the major share of the £3 billion world-wide market , with most of the milk for their products coming from the EC 's 25 million cows . |
| 26 | The German mortaring had suddenly stopped and the Brigade Major was standing out in the open talking to an Officer when , just as suddenly , the mortars started up again , sending their bombs swishing through the trees and sending the Brigade Major diving for cover . |
| 27 | A mumbled , incoherent sound bubbled and surfaced in her throat , and she clung to him for support , her fingers twisting in the silk of his shirt . |
| 28 | Her fingers running through the ruff of fur around the cat 's neck tightened as Jehan spoke , and the cat yowled and it bit playfully at her hand . |
| 29 | The long stake is ridiculed by the theory merchants , and no doubt will be so again , but when they have had the practical experience , as I have , of losing hundreds of trees through their necks breaking under the weight of an Easter snowstorm , they will learn the commonsense of long staking . |
| 30 | Ca n't you hear her teeth chattering in the night ? |