Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I remember my granny coming out with the word |
| 2 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 3 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 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 I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 7 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 8 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 9 | I was wounded to death and dying on my knees , scrabbling in dead grass , my time running out with the moonlight , the shadows closing in . |
| 10 | Was that the echo of my whisper wafting around in the darkness ? |
| 11 | However , this increase in speed must not be relied on if the launch is too slow and the pilot wants more speed , because the cause of a slow launch may be the beginning of a power failure , in which case steepening up in the hope of creating more speed would be dangerous . |
| 12 | ‘ How do I look — ’ She stopped dead , her heart flipping over under the sweater as Penry Vaughan leapt to his feet at the sight of her , the height and breadth of him overpowering the entire room . |
| 13 | I called in on Ruth at lunchtime today and found her sitting up in her wheelchair looking out at the garden and seeming much better and as bright as usual — a nice nurse in attendance . |
| 14 | Louise cried out as she felt her body tumbling down into the blackness . |
| 15 | Out of the corner of her eye , she watched her husband staring down at the cot . |
| 16 | She gave him a quick amused glance , her head leaning back against the faded red of the alcove seat . |
| 17 | Robyn lay on her back looking up at the cloudless sky . |
| 18 | She lay on her back staring up at the ceiling and her thoughts immediately flashed back to Luke and last night . |
| 19 | She met her father coming out of the surgery . |
| 20 | Benjamin paused and we all stared at the young woman now sitting back in her chair looking up at the rafters , tapping the table top and humming a tune to herself . |
| 21 | It came clear from the bag , her finger slipping on to the trigger , thumb freeing the safety catch . |
| 22 | So Molly stood in the kitchen , the centre of the house , with its door opening on to the terrace , where now , for certain , no one stood watching her . |
| 23 | I am much , much more concerned about her voice lasting out for the evening . |
| 24 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
| 25 | its tail curling in through the quarter-light . |
| 26 | The lettering on the bag looks too garish for the occasion , but at least wo n't get out of the car and find the remnants of her life spilling out into the gutter . |
| 27 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 28 | But he could make out her form stretching up to the light . |
| 29 | Or was it ? she wondered , her memory reaching out to the feel of Silas 's arms holding her against him , and to his lips resting upon her own . |
| 30 | For some reason these thoughts of Emily sent her memory shooting back to the previous Friday in Vass 's office when he had brought up the subject of the new crèche and she had somehow ended up , almost aggressively , informing him that it was not her intention , ever , to remarry . |