Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’
2 He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’
3 Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor .
4 THE Labour Party 's land policy paper , Planning a New Agenda , has been called partially flawed by Christopher Jonas replying to it for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors .
5 He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647–8 , in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith .
6 We suggest that , while bicycles may be recognizable by reference to the fact that they are damaged ( as in ( 59 ) ) , we can not easily describe bicycles as belonging to us in the same respect ; nor can we refer to ideas as belonging to you inasmuch as they are " discussed " .
7 Emotion seemed to gush out of her eyes , nose , mouth , as she sighed , wept , mumbled between kisses , covering his face with spit , tears , lipstick and rain , clinging to him with the frantic strength of a drowning swimmer .
8 And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time .
9 With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years .
10 Davie Jess , a well known wag , entertained his mates with a flood of stories , many of which , as he said later , John Robertson , a man known to have a fine voice was asked to sing a song ; the only songs of which he knew the words were all hymns and soon rescuers gathered in the control room on the surface heard a strong , clear rendering of The Old Rugged Cross coming to them over the internal telephone system , with more than 100 trapped miners joining in the chorus .
11 Tim and Oliver were on the balcony , their voices coming to her across the warm stillness .
12 Every sound , every movement , told her what he was doing … the shoes placed neatly side by side , the braces flicked down over his shoulders , the trousers carefully folded and laid across the back of the wicker chair , his footsteps coming to her over the creaking floorboards ; every sound , every movement … he was touching her now , warm , tickling , smooth , his naked body moving up and down against her , his voice in her ear , soft and loving , fingers probing , his mouth on hers ; the gasp of excitement when he entered her , jabbing , hard , growing excited .
13 You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future .
14 For the next few days Ruth spent most of her waking hours with Anna , reading to her from the small collection of books Mrs Carson had brought on board , playing games , making up stories .
15 And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores .
16 It might be suggested that it is only through the presence of the frame that we recognize the work of art for what it is , perceiving it and responding to it in the appropriate way .
17 I 'm , I 'm talking to him about the planned s filing system as well , which is
18 ‘ And I am not talking to him in the other room . ’
19 " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . "
20 Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh .
21 There was the soft tinkling of pagoda bells in the wind , the scent of jasmine and forsythia , of gardenia and chrysanthemum wafting to them through the great moon door in the wall .
22 ‘ Angel , ’ murmured Jay , waving to her along the dark road .
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