Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cymbals are then ‘ damped ’ immediately after striking by drawing them sharply back against the player 's body . |
| 2 | What they were doing , the old vixen was walking them higher up into the mountain for safety . |
| 3 | Julius quickly sorted through them , tossing them carelessly on to the floor as he continued his fast but thorough search . |
| 4 | The criminal replies , ‘ Have a look , mate ! ’ as he throws the heavy bag straight at the bobby , knocking him backwards on to the pavement . |
| 5 | Some page from a knightly family , most likely , thought Harry , eyeing him distantly out of the obscuring mist of his own preoccupations . |
| 6 | She made his costume , cutting down a white linen shirt and fitting it tight up round the neck . |
| 7 | She wrenched the lid off the biscuit tin and tipped her mother 's letters into the range , stuffing them well down with the poker until there was nothing left of them but black ash . |
| 8 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 9 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 10 | He said , ‘ Coffee , sir , ’ and offered the mug , though holding it just out of the President 's reach . |
| 11 | I would see through a more coactive involvement in Europe , and establishing not just the physical link of the chunnel but expanding it right up to the northwest , a line that goes right the way through , that there is a material benefit to this area , from that connection . |
| 12 | To hammer home the point , he denied his players from having a late Christmas dinner by taking them straight back to the club 's training ground . |
| 13 | Starting in this issue , our six-month course will begin by taking you right back to the basics . |
| 14 | If a break does occur the wire tends to coil up , and it is easy to make the mistake of just tying the broken ends together and towing it straight back to the launch point for the next launch . |
| 15 | " Look , mate , if you ca n't make it in bed , if she is n't finding you quite up to the mark , do n't take your frustration out on the rest of us . |
| 16 | Bones obliged him in everything he asked , even shaking him tenderly back into the saddle when he flew up round his ears or slipped tailwards . |
| 17 | She thumbed them into the magazine before placing it carefully back in the box with the weapon . |
| 18 | He reeled in the line , flicking it deftly out of the water . |
| 19 | Hilda 's home was near the convent , and the tube train seemed to be boring a hole into the past , bearing her inexorably back to the source of her purest happiness and pain . |
| 20 | Setting her firmly down on the wide base of the large shower cubicle , he swiftly turned on the taps , before joining her beneath the cascade of fresh water . |
| 21 | Then , without warning , his legs were grabbed from behind , throwing him forward on to the pile of bodies . |
| 22 | In laying her reverently back in the grave from which he had taken her , and sealing the murderer in her abandoned coffin , Cadfael had been and still was convinced that he did her will , and restored her to the resting-place she desired . |
| 23 | Tina might have told her mother this , during one of their evenings of confidences , but it had never occurred to her , she being neither proud nor ashamed of it , nor even thinking it very out of the ordinary . |
| 24 | Yeah I 'll be planting mine right up against the metal fence |
| 25 | He seized Ruth 's shoulder , jerking her violently back from the spears ; and , stumbling , she felt the sea lap round her ankles . |