Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have taken the bucket outside but when he returned Robyn was still struggling furiously with the unfamiliar catch . |
| 2 | He was suddenly seeing right into the crystalline spaces of the famous poem . |
| 3 | There follows the usual discussion on oppressed-minority self-detecting radar — Jewish , lesbian or otherwise — and some sniffing delicately around the problematical area of Israel , policies of and attitudes toward : Then Clint refers back to the books . |
| 4 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 5 | Then hoofbeats pounded to Sharpe 's left and he saw another French officer galloping furiously down the high road . |
| 6 | The name of the house means , literally , water running over stones , and a moment 's quietude brings to life the sound of many waterfalls tumbling all around the 800-acre property . |
| 7 | It was the strain — deep down she knew — the strain of finding herself in this diabolical situation , the strain of being alone here , like this , with his contempt and superiority , struggling constantly against the physical awareness of him , the electricity that his presence produced . |
| 8 | I would argue , however , that love-making ought not to be treated as drawing only on the irrational side of a person 's nature . |
| 9 | These again suit our mood , but at the last we turn for a final lingering view of the Parthenon , reflecting perhaps on the ultimate destiny of the material works of man . |
| 10 | It is not simply that these areas suffer from deprivation and poverty , but there is a danger of many outer estates , in particular , becoming areas which have a quite different social and economic system , operating almost at subsistence level , depending entirely on the public sector , where the opportunities for improvement either through self-help or through outside intervention are minimal . |
| 11 | In December 1989 the ‘ First National Conference on Knowledge Representation and Inference in Sanskritam ’ was organised by the Computer Society of India in Bangalore , bringing together for the first time linguists and computer scientists from all over India . |
| 12 | But it , as I have suggested , the structures of identity formation at work here are fundamental to our existing cultural forms , they can not be considered as stemming only from the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 13 | And then , as if the slight sound which had broken from her throat was a signal , he quickly scooped her up in his arms , wading swiftly through the shallow water towards the sandy shore . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , yes , ’ said Gilbert eagerly , stepping gingerly into the darkened doorway while Rohmer and Duvall watched , and Cardiff carefully watched them . |
| 15 | In fresh specimens , the white ovaries winding spirally around the blood-filled intestine produce a " barber 's pole " appearance . |
| 16 | The guests were crowding slowly past the wedded couple , kissing them , shaking their hands . |
| 17 | Words of warning were lurking somewhere in the darkest recesses of her mind , but the physical longing was n't so easy to abruptly cancel out , and besides Guy was already peeling the rest of the gold swimsuit down to her waist , then straddling her to place strategic kisses along the path of exposed skin as he lifted her hips to ease the costume down to her thighs . |
| 18 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |
| 19 | We had crowd-flow blockages , insufficient refreshment facilities , no VIP entrance , no security check until people were in the main auditorium , and no way to get backstage except by walking right through the main meeting , up the stairs onto the stage and out through the back — with everybody watching ! |
| 20 | Guido Alberto Rossi was born in Milan in 1949 , photographing widely in the Middle East and Indochina until 1973 . |
| 21 | Annie was sitting beside Rachel 's pram , talking and laughing with the child , when she noticed the young man walking slowly along the paved path . |
| 22 | Jekub was twenty feet away , vibrating gently in the early morning mist . |
| 23 | They were originally thought to have been two closely related species occurring together in the same rocks , but these ‘ pairs ’ were so consistently found together that it became more and more probable that they were sexual forms of the same species . |
| 24 | He ached with the fear that God was moving through the woods , coming nearer and nearer to him , a figure with a face he could not imagine , a shining shape , brushing past the respectful fern and pressing gently on the fallen twigs . |
| 25 | And Anders , showing off his strength by tearing only at the thick material of Nina 's suit . |
| 26 | The difference , says a senior commission official , is that ‘ binding procedures ’ means interfering only with the real basket-cases ( a euphemism for Greece , Italy and Belgium , which respectively run budget deficits of 19% , 10% , and 6% of their GDPs ) . |
| 27 | In their villages of origin the women had been regarded as contributing less to the economic position of the family than the men , but they had at least been recognised as crucial to the economic life of the community . |
| 28 | Between ( e ) and ( g ) there is a range of behaviour not fully illustrated by a still picture such as ( f ) , which looks like a superposition of ( e ) and ( g ) : if one watches the oscilloscope one sees the picture alternating randomly between the chaotic pattern and the ordered one . |
| 29 | I do not know whether the pattern which we see in this country — of significant differences between girls and boys appearing only at the higher levels of achievement — would also apply to the SIMS data . |
| 30 | He bounced off towards Doone , who was writing in his notebook , and they were walking together to the big boatshed as I drove away . |