Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , the enormous figure with rust-coloured moustaches walking towards her in the hall . |
| 2 | He nearly fell off his bench , groping behind him in the darkness , and heard the metal box clatter as it slipped past his fingers . |
| 3 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 4 | When I close my eyes and imagine fatherhood , I see all the standard clichés : John Jr walking with me in the park , a football dribbling at his chubby little feet ; John Jr passing me a spanner as I lie underneath the motorbike ; John Jr asking me to read him that story one more time because I read it so well . |
| 5 | I can remember only walking beside her in the dusk towards Regent 's Park , because we both wanted darkness and to be alone . |
| 6 | That was when he saw the thin figure jogging towards him in the gloom , and heard the roar of engines come up fast behind him . |
| 7 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 8 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 9 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 10 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 11 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 12 | So the Bangles disbanded and Hoffs walked into the sunset , a thousand corporate cheque books glinting behind her in the sun 's twilight glow . |
| 13 | They actually set up villages , which are in erm you know usually in rural er surroundings , and erm er they have erm usually I mean they 're mentally-disabled people there , and erm er they set up the village so that there are able- bodied people in there , and yet they live with the er mentally disabled people , you know they have houses and they the erm in inverted commas normal people have erm children and all this sort of thing , erm and yet they have erm er some of these mentally defective people living with them in the house , |
| 14 | And Theodora recounted her meeting with her in the drive at the Julians ' house . |
| 15 | She wrote : ’ I am writing to you in the hope that you can help me with the injustice which has occurred . |
| 16 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 17 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 18 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 19 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 20 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 21 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 22 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 23 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 24 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 25 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 26 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 27 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 28 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 29 | They found Carrington and Grant waiting for them in the saloon . |
| 30 | There were police waiting for them in the van and they got another good beating . |