Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The greatest human impact has been in Uruguay , where 600–2000 franciscanas have been drowning annually in a gill-net fishery for sharks in recent years . |
| 3 | As she reached the foot of the narrow stair Penry emerged from the kitchen , his black eyebrows knitting together in a daunting frown at the sight of her . |
| 4 | To quote the Federation 's annual report for 1948–49 , ‘ one purpose of the Federation ’ is ‘ that of bringing together in a friendly atmosphere the members of different Branches and Groups and thereby strengthening the unity and spirit of the WEA in Essex ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Guido Alberto Rossi was born in Milan in 1949 , photographing widely in the Middle East and Indochina until 1973 . |
| 8 | Jekub was twenty feet away , vibrating gently in the early morning mist . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 11 | But to be capable of jumping in formation in the dark with full equipment and a bundle of supplies and then landing together in the right place takes some doing . |
| 12 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 13 | Contact relationships 3 and 4 of Fig. 3 suggest that hematite in the Telegraph Pass granite and felsic dykes is of high-temperature TCRM origin , with remanence acquisition occurring early in the cooling history of these intrusions . |
| 14 | While exhorting the judiciary to use custodial sentences only for the really wicked , who commit serious offences , they have refused to compromise the supposed independence of the judiciary by interfering directly in the judicial process . |
| 15 | The case involved an alleged sexual attack by an 18-year-old young man on a 16-year-old schoolgirl as she was walking home in the early hours after a night out in the town . |
| 16 | We drove through narrow , unlit roads , with black Africans walking dangerously in the black night to get there . |
| 17 | He stood wheezing contentedly in the flat evening sun . |
| 18 | He led her up to the bedrooms , the floors and stairs wooden , fans whirring overhead in the steamy heat , mosquito netting over every door and window . |
| 19 | But it would not be difficult to construct post hoc explanations for fertility decline occurring earlier in the nineteenth century as well . |
| 20 | Harry watched it until it had turned into Emlyn Square , then began walking unsteadily in the same direction . |
| 21 | To avoid being recognised , he took to driving everywhere in a closed cab . |
| 22 | Assembling quietly in a public house for our third meeting attracted the nucleus of ‘ ad hoc ’ Committee members . |
| 23 | As for the gossip , though , DisInformation was eavesdropping recently in a little wine bar it knows somewhere in the heart of the South 's Thatcherland . |
| 24 | The perfect weather for camping — a still , warm night with a gigantic pastel-coloured moon reflecting dreamily in a glassy loch — is coincidentally the perfect night for the midges to chew your ass off . |
| 25 | The man on the moped was already speeding away in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | Visitors to the UFW in the 1970s often found nuns typing away in the outer office . |
| 27 | They are followed by people acting neutrally in a principled way , i.e. , because they believe that there is a reason not to help or hinder one side more than the other . |
| 28 | Our interest is in political theories that require neutrality , i.e. , that are followed by acting neutrally in a principled way . |
| 29 | A number of Israeli media reports in June mentioned that a Palestinian political party , the Palestine National Unity Party ( PNUP ) or Hizb al-Ittihad al-Watani al-Falastini , had been operating secretly in the occupied territories since mid-1989 . |
| 30 | The band , forced to play covers of Beatles songs and American country music ( the staple diet of Rhodesian radio ) , immediately switched to traditional African songs written specifically about celebrating freedom and living together in a new country . |