Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 2 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 3 | Ross had taken her home , gently helping her out of the taxi and escorting her to the front door . |
| 4 | I I th would prefer to look at the vacant dwellings as a single entity rather than necessarily splitting them down between the the the various types . |
| 5 | I must say that the way the discussion has gone this morning , is n I would say , slightly disappointing because there is some attempt to make a positive contribution , but at the moment it 's not necessarily pointing us quite in the direction which we would hope to go . |
| 6 | Gurney , who scored 205 goals in his fourteen years with Sunderland , worked out a way of drawing the centre-half with him while collecting the ball from the wing then suddenly laying it back to the centre for another forward . |
| 7 | The work of the symbolic , of the American television institution , in articulating this technical and imaginary possibility is to break it , interrupt , withdraw by separating the text into saleable parts , breaking up the promise of coherence and wholeness into short sessions , as it were , constantly jerking us out of the dream of coherent signifieds into the world of the endless play of signifiers . |
| 8 | But this er w this this feeling of erm not being respected , w do you think in that was in any sense a an important motivation for just sticking it out amongst the older men ? |
| 9 | Erm I , I think I might have missed Adam 's point and I was going back to whether the south was more efficient than the north because just tying it in with the seminar we had on managerial farms , were n't there more in the north than in the south ? |
| 10 | ‘ Bring one out , ’ he said , watching as the tall man struggled with it , finally dropping it on to the deck . |
| 11 | But even the Government 's staunchest supporters were n't exactly whooping it up over the results . |
| 12 | Yeah , it 's like the little ones , they the , the , the , erm , they handle all sorts , and when you comes actually down to seeing it on paper , you ke , it 's alright if they 're just counting it there in the hands and stuff . |
| 13 | I managed to scrounge some tobacco at Brigade H.Q and was soon handing it over to the Frenchman . |
| 14 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 15 | Paula was just saying he was in there doing , doing the doors , whatever doing the doors meant you know whether he 's actually putting them on or he 's ba is he , is he just putting them straight into the existing |
| 16 | ‘ It was obviously a good way to raise money for local charities , instead of just throwing them away in the waste bins . |
| 17 | So I am just throwing it out in the air , I do n't think it 's that s |
| 18 | Sergeant Bird watched fascinated while Frobisher diligently examined every vessel , finally dissecting them right off the base of the brain in order to see the other side . |
| 19 | So I was spinning the cam round , it had n't got pinned to the shaft , just spinning it round on the shaft and these pawls were doing this and Les , the top one , he went to Kettering and then Don , the next top one , he went to er |
| 20 | And forever drawing you away from the garden are the stupendous views , of the curve of Porth Neigwl , of the Merioneth Mountains , and even , on a clear day , down the full length of Cardigan Bay to St David 's Head in South Wales . |
| 21 | Moreover , according to David Johnston , the Gloucester captain was still knocking 'em back in the tackle in Australia last summer on Scotland 's short tour . |
| 22 | I was still holding her back from the window , and wondering what to do next , when Mr Edgar entered . |
| 23 | This is why bodies exist , rather than separate replicators still battling it out in the primordial soup . |
| 24 | The others are still working it off on the tennis court . ’ |
| 25 | Then remove the protective paper ( if any ) of the sensitised board and place this , etch-resist side down , onto the artwork , carefully lining it up on the artwork . |
| 26 | You are also preparing them well for the time when they will be outside your jurisdiction for ever . |
| 27 | they probably enjoyed it , cos they probably setting it up on the market stalls up there and there afford it . |
| 28 | I realized as I turned its pages that this was probably telling me more about the country and its people than my actual visit . |
| 29 | Minton , himself , still attended dinners and parties given by Lehmann , even though his interests were now drawing him away from the kind of society that Lehmann represented . |
| 30 | He refuses to play for the moment , boldly pressing on where others tend to dwell ; yet , with those Philadelphians really turning it on for the composer with whom this orchestra is most indelibly associated , superbly captured in Decca sound of great sumptuousness and tonal allure ( even if not always ideally balanced ) , it all makes for compulsive listening . |