Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was wrestling with something on the other side of that landing door , pushing open the door with one foot and shouting : ‘ Come on , then ! |
| 2 | Ben , too , joined in , and Millie , looking from one to the other , smiled widely at them . |
| 3 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 4 | With a hoarse cry she went into violent climax , her body possessed by the pulse that roared in her ears , her heart , her stomach , her thighs and made her limbs spasm and twist in ecstasy beneath him — no longer human , no longer conscious , no longer caring about anything except the dark flood of pleasure that rushed through her and shook her till she rattled and writhed to a hot , pulsing oblivion on his body . |
| 5 | Bob 's phone rang , and while he was talking Dyson , who was sitting back in his chair and waiting for someone at the other end of the line , covered up the mouthpiece of his phone and said , ‘ Are you coming to the funeral , Tess ? ’ |
| 6 | Neo-evolutionism rejects this unilinear dogma , and argues that there are many possible paths from the traditional to the modern , though there is a strong supposition that the capitalist road via pluralist democracy resulting in something like the contemporary United States and Western Europe , is the best and most efficient of the alternatives . |
| 7 | Well , erm , there is a cost involved in moving from , physically moving from one to the other , and also when you have to weigh up er , costs of moving your family or the risks involved and things like that , so that 's all involved in that . |
| 8 | Ben was crouched at the water 's edge , intensely still , staring at something in the tall , thick rushes to his right . |
| 9 | And then Wayne climbed out onto the cruiser 's deck , and they let the subject drop , and Wayne was left standing there glancing from one to the other , damned sure that something was going on here , and equally damned if he could tell what it was . |
| 10 | The idea was of staking out the estate and counting on someone at the appropriate moment . |
| 11 | Somehow Koons has turned what might have been titillating into something with the erotic appeal of a smutty , B-grade slasher film — the images draw you in only by their sheer gross-out power . |