Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Morton came in , a few minutes later , he found Bragg staring out of the window , his dead pipe clenched between his teeth . |
| 2 | I caught Michael sitting unashamedly on the bench again . |
| 3 | It was then that he noticed Whitlock standing discreetly in the background . |
| 4 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 5 | Hitch held her gaze until he heard Plummer heading back towards the kitchen . |
| 6 | ‘ If you ask me , that 's going a bit far , ’ said Ozaran as he watched Jinkwa snuggling up to the dead body of the General . |
| 7 | I was knocked to the ground , and a kind passer-by picked me up and dusted down my soaking clothes as 1 watched Dana walking away into the night . |
| 8 | As he watched Melody walking back to the farm , deliberately exaggerating the swing of her hips for his benefit , Seb was thinking of Anna . |
| 9 | Patrick watched Chris setting off down the 10th and then cut across to the 11th green , which was quite close . |
| 10 | When he saw Duclos striding back across the compound dragging a young Annamese boy behind him , he smiled quietly to himself , stepped back into his bedroom and began fumbling with the buttons of his silk shirt . |
| 11 | ‘ I will look after Celia , ’ Liza replied , picking up the telephone , and the calm decisive way in which she handled the situation sent Edna running off up the lane with Bobby , without further demurrence . |
| 12 | STEVE NICOL 'S extra-time blunder sent Liverpool spinning out of the Coca-Cola Cup as Crystal Palace 's patchwork heroes claimed a famous victory at Selhurst Park last night . |
| 13 | The next thing , he saw Lee looking out of the window . |
| 14 | Ipswich could have fallen further behind after 54 minutes when Wilkinson sent Hendrie tearing through on the left on his own . |
| 15 | She almost cried out in shock as she saw Ana moving quickly across the old court , drifting like someone in a dream . |
| 16 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 17 | She hesitated , just about to say yes , and at that moment saw Karl coming slowly down the steps of the Franz Joseph pulling on his driving gloves . |
| 18 | Then as she looked she saw Kate getting out of the back . |
| 19 | A sharp , heavy knock sent Nadia scrambling out into the cold half-light of the early morning . |
| 20 | A series of small explosions one morning brought Alec running out to the top of the steps . |
| 21 | Blunt , coming up behind him and hauling back on the control column to get his plane over the hedge , saw Peacock sliding out of the sky and tried to turn inside him . |
| 22 | Two weeks later , on the morning of the auction , a determined knock on the door sent Cissie flying headlong down the hallway from the kitchen , with Beth in close pursuit ; young Richard was already upstairs with his newly appointed day-tutor , and David was closeted in the den with Luther , going over the final details for the auction . |
| 23 | At the same time , out of the comer of his eye , he saw Tony coming out of the ticket-booth . |
| 24 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 25 | At the bottom of the stairs she met Ianthe coming out of the dining room with some leaves in her hands . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ said Antony staring out of the window into the front garden . |
| 27 | ‘ Smells like rain , ’ said Tom leaning out of the front window . |
| 28 | ‘ Spy plane already , ’ said Lee leaning out of the hide and shooting down the plane with an imaginary machine gun . |
| 29 | Mitch gave a gasp that had Ana turning questioningly to the doorway as she entered . |