Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 2 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 3 | I can remember only walking beside her in the dusk towards Regent 's Park , because we both wanted darkness and to be alone . |
| 4 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 5 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 6 | He stopped in his tracks , gently swaying with her to the music . |
| 7 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 8 | In the absence of an analysis of heterosexism , heterosexuals can ( and do ) reduce our gayness or lesbianism to just living with someone of the same sex , thus enabling them to remove the possibility of challenge from our relationships with them . |
| 9 | They were already waiting for her at the field , but she had no objection to being hustled aboard . |
| 10 | But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave . |
| 11 | With a hoarse cry she went into violent climax , her body possessed by the pulse that roared in her ears , her heart , her stomach , her thighs and made her limbs spasm and twist in ecstasy beneath him — no longer human , no longer conscious , no longer caring about anything except the dark flood of pleasure that rushed through her and shook her till she rattled and writhed to a hot , pulsing oblivion on his body . |
| 12 | It was just going from one to the others , if you got fed up you just , when you left the school you put your name in them all and |
| 13 | Well , erm , there is a cost involved in moving from , physically moving from one to the other , and also when you have to weigh up er , costs of moving your family or the risks involved and things like that , so that 's all involved in that . |
| 14 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 15 | There 'll be plenty of atmosphere , even just flogging round it in the cloud , ’ we agreed , pulling into the clammy , deserted car park at Pen y Pas with hearts in boots . ’ |
| 16 | Officially , I mean , not just bumping into him in the Lords ’ bar . ’ |
| 17 | Finney had known Harwood for a long time before finally working with him on the film of The Dresser . |
| 18 | I used to see him every day , basically , every night , just working with him in the studio and stuff , and I think it will always be there , thinking of him and everything . |
| 19 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 20 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 21 | And : ‘ I hear people are always writing to her about the deaths of their hearts . ’ |
| 22 | Financially , and for security , the English scene has a bit more going for us at the moment . |
| 23 | Miss Kenton was still waiting for me in the hallway and we ascended through the house in silence . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's hardly speaking to me at the moment — except to accuse me of stealing her golf-clubs . ’ |
| 25 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 26 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 27 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 28 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Heavens , ’ exclaimed Sara , still standing by them with the trolley , ‘ I did n't realise it was so late ! |
| 30 | Sadly , her thoughts of a good omen continued to prove false , because no sooner had she raised the knocker than the door was wrenched open , and a young woman emerged backwards , still talking to someone inside the house . |