Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With my cheek resting on the worn linoleum things came back into focus almost at once . |
| 2 | I was head and shoulders taller than she , my head knocking against the low rafters . |
| 3 | The notary gave Broussac a vigorous shove which sent my companion sprawling into the open sewer . |
| 4 | I 've spent the last year of my life caring for the wrong person . ’ |
| 5 | Ahead I could see the rest of my party plodding towards the final slope that leads to the west ( main ) summit . |
| 6 | spend my time doing over the past few years . |
| 7 | This allows a court to adjust its decision according to the other party involved . |
| 8 | bluntly , its skin fraying on the sharp stones ; |
| 9 | This means that derivational arguments stand or fall by their plausibility according to the effective use of evidence ; advance in theory . |
| 10 | Flinging herself round and seeing at least three inches of her hair lying on the wooden floor , she yelled , ‘ How dare you ! |
| 11 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 12 | Leonora gazed at him in silence , her heart beating against the blue chambray shirt like a tom-tom . |
| 13 | The actual decision was given on the basis that applying s5 of the Partnership Act in the first case and the general law of agency in the second , the firms were liable on the undertakings because they were given by their partner/employee acting within the usual course of his business as a qualified solicitor . |
| 14 | ‘ Somebody is doing that ? ’ she queried innocently , her mind darting to the perfumed letter he had received . |
| 15 | All the way home she found her mind turning to the red roses , and the person whose birthday it was . |
| 16 | She propped herself up on one elbow and looked down at his face in the starlight , her mind tangling on the mental arithmetic . |
| 17 | Her companion did the same , but the Sheikha in her usual way lifted her veil and with a graceful inward movement of her wrist held the pot under her arm , first one side then the other , her neck arching above the rising smoke . |
| 18 | It began to chug away , her underwear rotating past the little window in the door . |
| 19 | Emily Grenfell clasped her hands together , sitting on the edge of her seat gazing through the small window of the coach as it rumbled along Mumbles Road in the fashionable area of Swansea . |
| 20 | Claudia lying in her hut listening for the first sounds of life . |
| 21 | ‘ This is a good pub , ’ she said , hastily , obviously aware of having trespassed , her gaze passing over the heavy plush seating and lighting on one of the barmen who was openly resting his eyes on her as he polished glasses . |
| 22 | She surveyed his long-limbed body with an attempt at cool detachment , her gaze flickering over the dark denims that moulded his strong thighs , and the jade sweater that clung to his hard male chest . |
| 23 | It must look a picture in the summer ! she thought , her gaze lifting to the sweeping roofline which suggested a sense of soaring , almost of weightlessness . |
| 24 | ‘ Obediently she did as he bade her , her gaze travelling round the empty room , seeing only the elegant lines of fitted furniture , the newly made bed , the bedside table with one large volume hanging open — and another fallen untidily on the floor beside it . |
| 25 | It turned from the storm and from those inside the office block ; its need focusing on the ruined corpse that lay on the pavement next to it . |
| 26 | She picked her way gently down to the door , nodded pleasantly to Farquhar and bent under the lintel , to find her husband sitting by the tiny fireplace , watching Marion turn a hare on a spit over it . |
| 27 | The upper tier would be known as the Interim Committee for Local Authority Higher Education , its membership consisting of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State , William Waldegrave as Chairman ; Christopher Ball , Warden of Keble College , Oxford ; and six local authority representatives , three from the Association of County Councils and three from the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 28 | Jack 's beautiful pale-brown Bentley was parked in the drive , at the end of the track , at the edge of the wood , with its nose pointing to the outside world , towards freedom . |
| 29 | This relief , it may be added , was matched for a while by the exemption of some forty villages in the West Riding in 1319 , and of 128 villages in the North Riding in 1322 , from lay taxes because of the scale of their poverty resulting from the Scottish raids . |
| 30 | By the middle of the nineteenth century Lancashire was the most urbanized county in England , with over half its population living in the fourteen towns which contained more than 10,000 inhabitants each . |