Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 2 | There were any number of laden country folk in this concourse , and within the hour there would be still more crowding down upon them from the town , after the market . |
| 3 | She had been walking away from him towards the path that led to the gate and she turned her head and said , ‘ Did n't want to disturb you ; you looked so peaceful , asleep . ’ |
| 4 | Even before she was finished speaking he was walking quickly from her towards the house . |
| 5 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 6 | I went on , running where I could , and found him walking back towards me through the dayniter . |
| 7 | The postman was pedalling back towards them down the road . |
| 8 | We 'll be monkeying about with them after the break . |
| 9 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
| 10 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 11 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 12 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 13 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 14 | So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there . |
| 15 | Listening once to him on the Bench I recalled an occasion when the aged and formidable boys ' maid who looked after our rooms had stood with arms akimbo accusing him of some peccadillo , and ended her tirade : " Mr Phillimore , do n't you stand there lying like Ananias ! " |
| 16 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 17 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 18 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |
| 19 | I enjoyed meeting up with you at the JNCC presentation on Monday evening and was impressed in particular by Lord Selbourne 's clear determination ( shared by all the country council chairmen ) to make the JNCC both an effective co-ordinating body between the councils and a strategic ‘ think tank ’ on issues where a UK or an international perspective is essential . |
| 20 | On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House . |
| 21 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 22 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 23 | If we imagine the Great Mother as a huge , strong tree , then the childless women are like the very tips of the branches ; they create the tracery of twigs , its outline , while the mothers form the wood that is still growing , their daughters pushing out beyond them into the space around . |
| 24 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 25 | ‘ Bulgarian women have babies in hedges , ’ he said , looking vaguely about him at the north end of Sixth Avenue . |
| 26 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 27 | Seemingly standing rigid like a statue , his eyes are fixed on page one of the script while peripheral vision is trying to take in every detail of events going on around him in the studio . |
| 28 | ‘ There was so much going on around him after the World Cup , I 'm not sure even he knew what was going on . |
| 29 | This uses a video camera mounted on the tractor roof matched to a monitor screen on the dashboard to give the driver a view of what 's going on behind him without the need to turn round . |
| 30 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |