Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 2 | I can remember only walking beside her in the dusk towards Regent 's Park , because we both wanted darkness and to be alone . |
| 3 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 4 | He stopped in his tracks , gently swaying with her to the music . |
| 5 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 6 | They were already waiting for her at the field , but she had no objection to being hustled aboard . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Officially , I mean , not just bumping into him in the Lords ’ bar . ’ |
| 11 | Finney had known Harwood for a long time before finally working with him on the film of The Dresser . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 15 | And : ‘ I hear people are always writing to her about the deaths of their hearts . ’ |
| 16 | Financially , and for security , the English scene has a bit more going for us at the moment . |
| 17 | Miss Kenton was still waiting for me in the hallway and we ascended through the house in silence . |
| 18 | ‘ She 's hardly speaking to me at the moment — except to accuse me of stealing her golf-clubs . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 21 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Heavens , ’ exclaimed Sara , still standing by them with the trolley , ‘ I did n't realise it was so late ! |
| 23 | And very quickly talking about it amongst the staff and er the other committees it would seem that it ought to have a far broader remit than just on the racing side so the first thing that I 'd like to emphasise is that this year of youth sailing is involves all the outgoing grass roots divisions of the R Y A , that is windsurfing , racing , training and the development divisions and the regions and the clubs and the recognized teaching establishments , so it really is an all encompassing er er scheme . |
| 24 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 25 | While Alex Higgins reckons snooker can seriously damage your health , Davis is positively thriving on it at the moment . |
| 26 | It was getting late and her youngest child , Tudor , who had accompanied her to the funeral , and was now waiting for her in the local hotel , would be growing anxious . |
| 27 | He had n't contacted her since that early-morning call yesterday , and she wondered if he truly expected her to sit here , simply waiting for him like the princess in the tower . |
| 28 | FitzAlan stood up , immediately looming over her in the confines of the hut . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same . |
| 30 | She lay there , looking about her , the hushed voices of the four men standing nearby washing over her like the senseless murmur of the sea . |