Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] with a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The boy stood looking round him with a wary face and large , intent eyes . |
| 5 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 6 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 7 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety . |
| 11 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 12 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
| 13 | As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression . |
| 14 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Duncan trotted back with him and , sure enough , Mother dinosaur was waiting for them with a big smile on her face . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Sergia interrupted , moving towards me with a stern gaze . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd be scared of them coming after me with a big shotgun . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's a deep thought , coming from someone with a bright green face , ’ Charity teased . |
| 28 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 29 | He had sat opposite her , watching her while she ate , making an extravagant moue of distaste when she suggested that he share it , but staring at her with a concentrated , almost angry , satisfaction ; rather , she thought , as a mother might watch a convalescent child taking her first mouthful . |
| 30 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |