Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Even before she was finished speaking he was walking quickly from her towards the house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Bulgarian women have babies in hedges , ’ he said , looking vaguely about him at the north end of Sixth Avenue . |
| 8 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 9 | I mean , here am I , chattering away to you about the outcome of the war … and you actually know , Cassie . |
| 10 | The blue train is pulling away from me in the drizzle , gathering speed , effortlessly accelerating along its elevated track . |
| 11 | Their prey this morning was Lawn House , lying just below it on the hillside . |
| 12 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 13 | She had dinner with Ben and Maggie Bradshaw , and Oliver and Bron Henderson had a party which she attended , although she ended up bumping into Jack as she might have known she would , and going home with him for the night . |
| 14 | Frank , going ahead of her to the boat , turns for her . |
| 15 | As she knelt there , with Fand lying quietly before her on the beach , nothing else seemed to matter much . |
| 16 | Thiercelin began to nudge through the crowd of idlers around the stage door , leaving his friend gazing stoically after him in the late evening rain . |
| 17 | But then there were the terns getting away with it on the other side of the window . ’ |
| 18 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 19 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |
| 20 | They had n't got no kids , yelling and nagging at you the minute you get in , crawling all over you in the night because they 're cutting their bloody teeth . |
| 21 | She stopped , aware that her tongue was running away with her in the heat of the moment . |
| 22 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 23 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 24 | She sat very still , staring ahead of her into the gathering darkness . |
| 25 | The Doctor had reached the summit of yet another bleak ridge , and turned to make this announcement to Francis and the Counsellors , who were toiling upwards towards him in the face of a wind full of dust and hailstones . |
| 26 | ‘ You seem to have a rather inflated idea of your own attractions , Mr Sterne , ’ she muttered , scarlet-faced , kicking her suitcase towards the door , and reaching cautiously behind her for the latch . |
| 27 | Why are sitting right beside me on the phone ? |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the fragile harmony between them was soon broken when she found herself arguing furiously with him in the dress department of Bloomingdales . |
| 29 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 30 | The hand under hers clenched on the settee cushion , his face went red , and his eyes flashed such vindictive rage for a moment that she thought he would hit her , then he controlled himself , sitting silently by her on the settee , until she felt his hand gradually relax . |