Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I found the author of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick sipping mineral water , tapping a hand-drum and singing to himself in 17th-century verse . |
| 2 | ‘ More like a full metamorphosis , ’ he drawled , leaning back against the huge , craggy trunk of the tree and gazing at her with wicked eyes . |
| 3 | A generation ago these two were roughtly equally important , and walking from one to another was acceptable . |
| 4 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Deminex UK , which has secured another Liverpool Bay licence , has been exploring fields since 1972 and operating on them since 1977 . |
| 7 | To any casual observer it would have been a very comical sight A six foot one inch hulk of a man cavorting about and shouting at nothing in particular in a moonlit pool . |
| 8 | She found herself opening her eyes , and looking at him with dazed longing . |
| 9 | At other times , mostly when he smiled in that particular way of Tyler 's , leaning his head sideways and looking at her with incredible love in his sparkling green eyes , she found it unbelievably painful . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never known such a miserable bride , ’ she went on , standing back and looking at me with some affection , but more disapproval . |
| 11 | It 's no good coming over and looking at me like that Rick . |
| 12 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 13 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 14 | But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it . |
| 15 | Tonight 's Jeeves and Wooster has Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie playing the ingenious manservant and dimwitted aristocrat moving in the smart set of the 1930s , enjoying themselves and going to lots of wonderful parties . |
| 16 | With the baby , he was gentleness itself , playing with him and caring for him with true devotion . |
| 17 | Other causes of distortion include our reliance on our own pet theory of personality ( ‘ Its worked well so far ’ ) , selective perception ( ‘ I know what I want to hear ; do n't confuse me with the facts ’ ) , the so-called halo effect — forming opinions on one piece of information and generalizing from it to other pieces of information ( e.g. ‘ She was brilliant in the Geneva post ; she 'll be brilliant wherever we send her ’ ) , or its opposite , the horns effect ( ‘ He was hopeless in Paris . |
| 18 | In that incomparable verse Racine surely articulates the classical and terrible conception that underlies also Virgil 's treatment of Dido : sexual passion , the erotic , understood as one undifferentiated energy running wild , fastening itself seemingly at random on this person or that one , and switching from one to another in a way that discredits all human vows of constancy . |
| 19 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 20 | Through the open door I could see Harry hanging on to the horse 's head and staring at me with frightened eyes . |
| 21 | They were sitting and staring at him in complete absorption . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't help it , it 's this horrible cave … ’ she complained huskily , her fingers finding the spring of his curly hair at the nape of his neck , and raking through it with shameless provocation . |
| 23 | The idea that a court is entitled to disregard a provision in an Act of Parliament on any ground must seem strange and startling to anyone with any knowledge of the history and law of our constitution , but a detailed argument has been submitted to your Lordships and I must deal with it . |
| 24 | Inside where nothing shows , I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins , and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're crazy about each other and should never have been apart this last year , but it 's fate , you see , coming here and bumping into them like that in that restaurant . ’ |