Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched them disappear from his view , his father still waddling along with that bloody basket . |
| 2 | By chance , one of the world 's top fashion talent-spotters happened to be booking in for that same flight . |
| 3 | Keeping up with that galloping pen of hers , Mrs Praga one day devised " a scheme based on deep orange-hued carnations " , the table-slip to be of deep sunset yellow satin edged with écru lace ( sunset yellow , she tells us elsewhere , was a Liberty colour — in fact most of her inspiration came from Liberty 's ) . |
| 4 | Because you 're always walking around with that bloody notebook writing everything down , and you 're not getting anywhere near the truth … |
| 5 | Unfortunately , Jack Kerouac never lived to see the success of it , ironically passing on to that great hippie gathering in the sky on 21 October 1969 . |
| 6 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 7 | Looking back to that nightmarish night in the wake of her conversion , Mary can suggest only one explanation . |
| 8 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 9 | I know you , Lissa ; I know you far better than you think , and I know exactly what 's going on in that secretive labyrinth of a mind . |
| 10 | Almost certainly there would be a second stair leading down from that inner bedchamber . |
| 11 | I know that 's good because we were all gon na go , cos I 'm doing a French course last year at college , and we were going over with that one pound , you know each , with a car load offer . |
| 12 | He looked ahead to where the road curved openly up to the left , free road ahead , that 's where he was going up on that open road ahead with this great sense of power behind his eyes , behind his shoulders , in his thighs . |
| 13 | Oh by the way , just going back to that other thing , can you let them know Harry we 're definitely going to take in this |
| 14 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 15 | One thing I do know , I 'm not going back to that God-awful prison whatever happens . ’ |
| 16 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 17 | ‘ I see enough of you and Gesner racing around in that appalling car of his without watching you prancing together on a stage . ’ |
| 18 | You 're going around with that ex-fractured tib and pelvis , are n't you ? |
| 19 | Meditation is holding on to that silken thread throughout life . |
| 20 | I would stand at the street door and wait until his tall , burly figure appeared , still plodding along with that measured tread acquired from years on the beat . |
| 21 | She tried to think of nothing at all , but found her mind drifting back to that one subject all the time . |
| 22 | But Joan was harking back to that awful day . |
| 23 | Poncing around with that silly whip , cracking smutty jokes — I 've read funnier gags in Christmas crackers ! |
| 24 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 25 | Mr Browning coming in at that very moment ran to his wife 's side and all but hauled her out of the bed in order to get her upright — in a moment , the convulsion was over and she sank back quite exhausted and drained . |
| 26 | We have Lisa who is the queen of the Careline , dancing along to that particular song . |
| 27 | The Notts defence pulled absolutely all over the place and it it was the pace of coming up down that right hand touchline that did it . |
| 28 | That was the time when I stood in all that fluid with my boots on , a priceless carpet under my feet , hounds never seen on the earth before lying still and obedient before me , staring out of that maternal portico with its flanking columns , down the long avenue of limes that lead to birth , life and Arcadia . |
| 29 | Now , of course , we got problems now where they 've all been abolished and is virtually on a voluntary basis , and I say , it 'll be rather interesting to see whether Lamont actually is going to release some more money , cos you probably realise at the moment they 're cutting back on that particular budget . |
| 30 | and that or a yeah , yes , we were coming back through that little lane in Berrison Way |