Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 2 | My way is to burn a hole in using a soldering iron , or by heating up a similarly shaped piece of metal on the gas oven and slowly easing it through . |
| 3 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 4 | My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders , thereby keeping them out of custody . |
| 5 | So bringing you back to after the war , er how did the business continue er then or for , from that time forward ? |
| 6 | Ross had taken her home , gently helping her out of the taxi and escorting her to the front door . |
| 7 | I 'm just kinda breakin' you in gently . |
| 8 | She thinks that she 's merely bringing him down to meet Jim and me . ’ |
| 9 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |
| 10 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time , only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied , or at the door of a friend of my mother 's with a boy she fancied for me inside . |
| 11 | Probably nothing , he was thinking , she 's only winding me up , and the thought that she was gave him a pleasurable kick . |
| 12 | , I 'm only winding him up . |
| 13 | ‘ Only winding you up . |
| 14 | I 'm only winding you up ! |
| 15 | They 're only winding you up . |
| 16 | He watched as she backed and turned , then drove off , the grey curtain of the mist suddenly swallowing her up . |
| 17 | He had the door open and his back to her when , her brother 's hat obviously catching his eye , he halted , stretched out a hand to it , then turned to where Leith , antagonistically-expressioned , stood , obviously wanting him out of her flat . |
| 18 | ‘ Pegg 's right , ’ said Algernon , delightedly egging them on . |
| 19 | Corbett grunted , impatiently hurrying him on , and seized the tattered leather strap . |
| 20 | Merely presenting it in er as analysis . |
| 21 | ‘ She was only paying me back for what I did for her , and she should have gone on paying me back . ’ |
| 22 | I I th would prefer to look at the vacant dwellings as a single entity rather than necessarily splitting them down between the the the various types . |
| 23 | ‘ Two yards from the special , Magee raised his two arms together holding them out in front of him in the combat position , and to his horror PC Kelly saw a handgun protruding from Magee 's clenched fists . |
| 24 | This moderates the nuclear reaction by literally slowing it down . |
| 25 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said , suddenly shutting them out . |
| 27 | I was only reading it off there . |
| 28 | I was merely taking her down to London for a day . |
| 29 | The transfer of goods is most commonly made by merely handing them over , and such a transfer is equally effectual whether the transfer is for value or by way of gift . |
| 30 | In the absence of any other guidelines it is best to start the design of the artwork by defining the above factors , perhaps listing them out for reference . |