Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Constance had no time to assess the bewildering exchange of tone that the lunch party had taken before Giancarlo was walking towards her with a vivacious woman by his side who was busily blowing kisses and calling ‘ Ciao ’ to the tables she passed .
2 One day her mother came looking for him with a great heavy umbrella in her hand .
3 He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him .
4 He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad .
5 When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face .
6 The boy stood looking round him with a wary face and large , intent eyes .
7 He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression .
8 Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression .
9 But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face .
10 I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous .
11 He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed .
12 ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety .
13 She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now .
14 But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly .
15 As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression .
16 Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender .
17 She turned , hearing the stillness that followed the rustling of his movements , and he was standing in the doorway , looking at her with a strange , soft look of mingled reluctance and resolution .
18 He was looking at her with an icy contempt .
19 You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye .
20 Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day .
21 I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude !
22 Duncan trotted back with him and , sure enough , Mother dinosaur was waiting for them with a big smile on her face .
23 Her father was in the anteroom , waiting for her with a dour face and uneasy eyes , but so closely attended by page and chamberlain that barely a word beyond her submissive greeting and his mumbled acknowledgement , phrased as a blessing but uttered like a malediction , was able to pass between them .
24 Gazzer , a strange , urgent little figure , hurrying among them with a bloodstained rag round his right hand , dressed in filthy black trousers and a black anorak , made one or two people shield their eyes against the sun and , with lazy curiosity , prop themselves up on one elbow to follow his progress through the gardens .
25 Spatz looked up at Ellis and took the files from him , sorting through them with a great show of self-importance , before finally setting them aside and looking across at Kim .
26 Sergia interrupted , moving towards me with a stern gaze .
27 Her helpless moans of delight seemed to excite his own desire , perspiration breaking out on his skin as his body began moving against her with a rhythmic urgency he could barely control .
28 the fact of belonging to the same class , and that of belonging to the same generation or age group , have this in common , that both endow the individuals sharing in them with a common location in the social and historical process , and thereby limit them to a specific range of potential experience , predisposing them for a certain characteristic mode of thought and experience , and a characteristic type of historically relevant action .
29 He ignored her words , capturing her mouth with his own again , his lips moving over hers with a sensual expertise that took her breath away .
30 Some people ( who usually turn out to do well in phonetic training ) find that in speaking to someone with a different accent their pronunciation gets progressively more like that of the person they are speaking to , like a chameleon adapting its colour to its environment .
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