Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was naked , completely naked , and she could hear his harshly muttered words of desire ; they excited her beyond belief , her body twisting against his in mindless fever , all flesh and blood and pulse . |
| 2 | Andrew 's mother Janice , 23 , who was walking with them in nearby Haxby , said : ‘ The first thing I heard was Carol scream , then a bang . |
| 3 | Andrew 's mother Janice , 23 , who was walking with them in nearby Haxby , said : ‘ The first thing I heard was Carol scream , then a bang . |
| 4 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 5 | But I watched , out of a sense of duty admittedly , most of the election news programmes , feeling all the time , these are not relating to me in any way . |
| 6 | Robyn turned the ignition over , realising he was gaining on her with remarkable speed , and the jeep roared into life . |
| 7 | He sent her a glare that was full of suspicion , then demanded abruptly , ‘ You would n't be laughing at me by any chance ? |
| 8 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 9 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 10 | Housing — Secure tenancy — Death of tenant — Tenant obtaining tenancy of council house 10 days before death — Tenant 's brother living with him in different council premises during 12 months prior to death — Whether brother ‘ resided with ’ deceased tenant so as to succeed to tenancy — Housing Act 1985 ( c. 68 ) , s. 87 |
| 11 | He could n't like living with her under these sort of conditions . |
| 12 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 13 | I thought she was really very nice and my opinion was formed from that one meeting with her by pure accident . |
| 14 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |
| 15 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 16 | A vision of Colonel Beamish , listening to her with undisguised scepticism , loomed before her . |
| 17 | We , the young people of this area , extend our greetings to you and thank you for listening to us on this Youth Sunday . |
| 18 | The launch pad might be in the way , pushing on us from that end to stop us doing the natural thing which is to fall vertically through to the centre of the Earth . |
| 19 | People looking to it for educational use , or a big company HQ . |
| 20 | The FA will not pursue the matter and yesterday they agreed to take no action against referee Ray Lewis , who was accused by a fan of swearing at him during last week 's match between Barnet and Walsall . |
| 21 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 22 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 23 | Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue . |
| 24 | Looking at them in this light it is natural to turn to that Elizabethan model for letter-writing , Angel Day 's The English Secretorie ( 1586 ) . |
| 25 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 26 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 27 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 28 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 29 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 30 | She found herself opening her eyes , and looking at him with dazed longing . |