Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Guido Alberto Rossi was born in Milan in 1949 , photographing widely in the Middle East and Indochina until 1973 . |
| 5 | Jekub was twenty feet away , vibrating gently in the early morning mist . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We drove through narrow , unlit roads , with black Africans walking dangerously in the black night to get there . |
| 14 | He stood wheezing contentedly in the flat evening sun . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But it would not be difficult to construct post hoc explanations for fertility decline occurring earlier in the nineteenth century as well . |
| 17 | Harry watched it until it had turned into Emlyn Square , then began walking unsteadily in the same direction . |
| 18 | The man on the moped was already speeding away in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | Visitors to the UFW in the 1970s often found nuns typing away in the outer office . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Was there not , on the whole of Battersea Reach , a couple , married or unmarried , living together in the ordinary way ? |
| 22 | The play tells the story of two young men who were separated by class and culture as children , who for different reasons end up serving together in the First World War . |
| 23 | But perhaps we are looking entirely in the wrong place for any significant employment gains in industry . |
| 24 | Soldiers serving elsewhere in the British forces were liable to encounter problems with their Jewish identity . |
| 25 | Cranston , craning his neck , followed the words forming quickly in the blue-green ink . |
| 26 | Business corporations such as Unilever , ICI and Shell were operating transnationally in the nineteenth century , but their proliferation and freedom of operation has been greatly facilitated , since the Second World War , by technological development . |
| 27 | Curiously , however , Lanham ads Hale 's rationale both convincing and compelling even in the modern context . |
| 28 | As we near the end of the 20th century our horizons must extend well beyond our own national frontiers , to our new relationships which are developing fast in the European Community and to our obligations and opportunities in the exciting , but often perilous circumstances of the post Cold War world . |
| 29 | In the close , timber-scented air of the hut , with the herbs rustling overhead in the rising warmth from the brazier , she sat leaning forward to the glow , the light gilding her high cheekbones and the broad sweep of brow beneath the curling black hair . |
| 30 | Of course , Doyle 's success brought imitators by the score , all writing then in the short story form . |