Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am returning herewith your invoice for a subscription to the above periodical . |
| 2 | ‘ That was heavenly , ’ she told Guido , mopping up her sauce with a lump of bread . |
| 3 | Looking over his shoulder for a second to be sure of his footing , he backed into the water , dragging Carey after him . |
| 4 | Her escort lounges in the driving seat , one hand laid casually on the wheel , the other engaged in smoothing back his hair in a relaxed manner belied by the slightly puzzled looks he flicks sideways at her . |
| 5 | I am not , after all , ’ she said , looking around her domain with a distinct smile , ‘ running a house of ill repute , which is what I fear the present title of Madame seems to suggest , along with bead curtains , red velvet plush love seats , champagne buckets and other such fittings and accoutrements which are not our style at all these days . |
| 6 | Her head was covered in a white coif with a white shawl shaped in the form of a triangle going down her back like a liripipe . |
| 7 | In the night its silence and its matt , pewter gleam were alike deceptive , suggesting languor and sleep , while she knew from her memories of day that it was rushing down its bed with a tigerish fury and force , so concentrated that it generated no ripples and no sibilance . |
| 8 | Well , I waited up until three o'clock in the morning and he crawled in with footmarks all over his nice new suit where he 'd fallen on the floor and let everybody trample over him , blood pouring down his shirt from a head wound , a balloon tied round his neck and a paper hat on . |
| 9 | There was blood pouring down his face from a head wound , he had slipped from his sitting position and was now lying on his side , his knees drawn up . |
| 10 | TRAP THREE : Going over your limit on a credit card can lead to two main headaches . |
| 11 | She felt as though her brain were clambering around her skull like a wasp trying to get out of a jam jar . |
| 12 | He could n't bear to see Daniel Marsh fawning round his wife like a besotted mongrel , and any other man who looked at her was to be immediately discouraged . |
| 13 | Detectives are stepping up their hunt for a rapist who attacked a woman at Nottingham 's Music Festival at the weekend . |
| 14 | Police are stepping up their hunt for a man who 's carried out a series of sexual attacks on women in the last seven months . |
| 15 | ‘ Yeah , and the day before that , ’ said Connie , touching up her lipstick with a finger to cover the razorscar under her nose . |
| 16 | Of course , such a device is doing more than protecting them from an over-exciting adventure ; it is also in a calmer way building up their anticipation of a real mystery . |
| 17 | When Isabel at last returned to an awareness of her surroundings it was to feel the gentle touch of Guy 's mouth , moving over her throat in a series of feather-light kisses . |
| 18 | Election ‘ 92 : How the main parties are staking out their ground for a hung parliament |
| 19 | ‘ Because the son of a bitch wo n't let up while he thinks there is the slightest chance of getting back his quarter of a million , ’ Hugo said . |
| 20 | ‘ Now I 've achieved my main priority of getting back my passport after a six-year fight . |
| 21 | ‘ Odets seemed to me to share something of Marilyn [ Monroe 's ] perceptive naivete ; like her , he was a self-destroying babe in the woods absentmindedly combing back his hair with a loaded pistol . ’ |
| 22 | Conjugal rights were being denied him ; human rights were being suspended at times ; unnecessary inconvenience was happening everywhere ; abuse was flying around his head like a spit-shower — and he was an important man from a considerable Bombay family ! |
| 23 | James Grierson was stalking around his house in a fit of temper so acute he could almost taste it . |
| 24 | She had a bald , stark way of speaking , never looking Gabriel in the eye but staring over his shoulder with a slight frown creasing her curd-yellow forehead . |
| 25 | Mr Bedi , from Brentwood , Essex , had won an order preventing BT from cutting off his phone in a row over an unpaid bill . |
| 26 | He did n't pause to admire the car ( the car seemed like new : great ! ) but hurried inside , flinging off his coat with a hot gasp and making a lunge for the phone . |
| 27 | Lady Helen Taylor , daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent , who is just giving up her job as a Soho art dealer , and her husband , West End art dealer Tim Taylor , have traded in their black 10-year-old Porsche sportscar for a K-registered £27,500 family-sized black Range Rover . |
| 28 | Judith 's mixed feelings about the occasion are shared by Father Martin Flatman who is giving up his position as a vicar in Oxford in protest at the move . |
| 29 | Tony began 20 years ago , after giving up his job as a scientist . |
| 30 | Do you ever regret giving up your job as a psychiatric nurse ? |