Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his dark head bent , his mouth closing over hers with burning sensual expertise . |
| 2 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 3 | Wandering aimlessly down one of the grim , draughty passageways of the castle , with Ranulf trailing behind him like some morose dog , Corbett almost bumped into Benstede and his strange body-servant , Aaron . |
| 4 | She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's . |
| 5 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 6 | He rose above her and looked at her , his gaze moving over her with slow , lingering care , tasting her with his eyes as his hands and mouth had tasted her parted lips , her upthrust breasts , her parted thighs . |
| 7 | I would ask those concerned if they could be patient and given time I will refund all money owing to them including any interest that would have accrued had their money been in a bank . |
| 8 | She was naked , completely naked , and she could hear his harshly muttered words of desire ; they excited her beyond belief , her body twisting against his in mindless fever , all flesh and blood and pulse . |
| 9 | Following a telephone conversation in late February in which Mr. expressed possible BWB interest in collaborating on a project to repair certain sections of the towpath , I had a first site meeting with him on 5th March . |
| 10 | Nobody but nobody commented on Maggie 's shapely form — not unless they wanted acid dripping on them from that sharp tongue . |
| 11 | Now , with the news that Rosa is running London this weekend , there is just that slight question mark hanging over her in Olympic year to make things interesting . |
| 12 | Douglas Blain , secretary of the Trust , describes his own first contact with the area , by chance coming across it in 1961 . |
| 13 | But a report on nine of the 80 homes has uncovered a ratio varying from one in 20 to one in 38 . |
| 14 | If you have more space , you could create a series of pools with the water falling from one to another until it reaches the lowest in a continual cycle . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) Nothing in this section shall enable any action — ( a ) to recover , or recover the value of , any property ; or ( b ) to enforce any charge against , or set aside any transaction affecting , any property ; to be brought against the purchaser of the property or any person claiming through him in any case where the property has been purchased for valuable consideration by an innocent third party since the fraud or concealment of ( as the case may be ) the transaction in which the mistake was made took place … |
| 16 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 17 | She remembered the time she had returned the coffee she had borrowed from him , and how she had instinctively known there was a woman waiting for him in this very room . |
| 18 | She felt the bones give and moved away quickly , coughing now , the smoke getting to her at last . |
| 19 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |
| 20 | What most visitors who admire it do n't know is that its original home was the middle of Oxford town centre — just below Carfax tower — with traffic flowing around it from all directions . |
| 21 | ‘ If ever I catch another man looking at me with that look which means ‘ You 're mine , all mine ’ I shall kill him , because I 'm not his all his at all . |
| 22 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 23 | In his triumph the victorious general was supposed to be accompanied by a slave repeating to him at suitable intervals : " Respice post te , hominem te memento " ( Tertull . |
| 24 | The way she was looking right now , pink-cheeked and with her hair falling about her in tousled , tangled curls , it would take a miracle to transform her into elegant and sophisticated . |
| 25 | Only one out of eight men employed to carry coals , mine and sows of iron at Robertsbridge worked all 140 days of the campaign in 1542 — 3 , the remainder putting in anything from two to forty-eight . |
| 26 | 15 Penthouses with accommodation varying from one to four bedrooms , all with terraces , have been constructed above this beautifully refurbished building . |
| 27 | We 've asked three mums , with babies aged from two weeks to five months , to give the slings and changing bags a star rating from one to five . |
| 28 | In December 1936 Lance Henly , the Club 's forbearing Secretary for 15 years , resigned through ill-health , and the Brewery settled the £149 debt owing to him for 20 months unpaid expenses . |
| 29 | Because , I mean , I , I 've , I 've got three weeks holiday owing to me from last year . |
| 30 | The physics classroom had a spiral iron staircase leading from it to some region inhabited only by science masters . |