Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just needed to see you ! ’ she said with a brittle smile , walking past him on to the hot beach , feeling the tears burn her eyes . |
| 2 | Sharon 's boyfriend Matthew Stanton , 21 , was walking with her just behind the happy , giggling girls at the time of the accident early on Saturday evening . |
| 3 | Still holding her arm , he was walking with her back along the avenue , down to the sea front . |
| 4 | It is more realistic to compare the cumulative incidence at necropsy with the cumulative risk of detection of clinical cancer and the risk of dying from it up to the age of 75 . |
| 5 | One time , somebody went looking for him all over the place . |
| 6 | This requires a successful I test , with a -20 penalty , for any character who specifically states he is looking for something out of the ordinary . |
| 7 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been looking for you all over the house . ’ |
| 9 | Unlike reference , substitution , and ellipsis , the use of conjunction does not instruct the reader to supply missing information either by looking for it elsewhere in the text or by filling structural slots . |
| 10 | Nicholson dismissed the warders , returning to the window for a moment as if searching for something out in the windswept yard . |
| 11 | They 're looking after you well by the look of it |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I think it 's high time you stopped looking like something out of the last century , do n't you , my sweet ? ’ her stepmother said . |
| 13 | It was probably a very good thing in far more ways than one , Harry reflected , that Aubrey would be living with them here at the farm for several months . |
| 14 | If we 've not answered your question in this programme , I shall be writing to you directly during the next few days . |
| 15 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 16 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 17 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |
| 18 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 19 | Celia was aware of Dr Shalcross looking at her intently across the desk . |
| 20 | The way he was looking at it right at the end when he 's looking back at him and he |
| 21 | Er be difficult to say because er looking at it purely from the mercenary side of the business , |
| 22 | That said , the whole area of interactive video — if that is indeed where your proposal lies — is so far from being a developed market that we are looking at it only in the most tentative of ways . |
| 23 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 24 | That holiday morning I found Miss Louise waiting for me just inside the door with a pair of old shoes and a pair of slippers in her hands . |
| 25 | Waiting for me down on the sands — a great hulking shape , crouching there , darker than darkness . |
| 26 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 27 | There had always been a trap waiting for him somewhere along the way when Isambard loosed the reins a little , and it would be the same now . |
| 28 | Ranulf the rat-catcher was waiting for him just outside the door , a sleek , well-fed Bonaventure in his hands . |
| 29 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 30 | Membership benefits include some that arrive through the post , and others that are waiting for you just around the corner … |