Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood back to look down the line of her figure under the flimsy nightgown , his eyes caressing her as blatantly as if she had been naked . |
| 2 | He said huskily , ‘ Let me , McAllister , ’ and began to unbutton her blouse , ‘ I want to stroke you , McAllister , and not your clothes , ’ and she made no effort to stop him , and when he bent his head to kiss the breasts he had fondled with his hands the cry which she gave was one of pleasure , not fear , for now it was Dr Neil loving her so carefully that the flood of pleasure was almost on her from that alone . |
| 3 | Write the word clearly ( not in capital letters ) , and record your voice on the card saying it as naturally as possible . |
| 4 | We need people of talent , whatever their political persuasions , in such public positions and I look forward to people of talent taking them up regularly . |
| 5 | Something that rock'n'roll has in common with the kid that walks down the street — usually black — with a big ghetto blaster on his shoulders playing it too loud , is that everybody says , ‘ What a nuisance … ’ |
| 6 | Rosa ignored her , she wanted to speak so much she felt the words swelling her up inside like leaven in dough , pushing it up out of the mould until it has doubled and doubled in size . |
| 7 | Charlie asked , as Becky felt his eyes studying her more closely . |
| 8 | The best comparison one can make is with either a largely exactly contemporary set of recordings on a Vogue Savoy collection , ‘ Original Bird — The Best of Bird on Savoy ’ ( Vogue , full price ) or a similarly anthological album highlighting his slightly later ( 1946–47 ) efforts for the Comet and Dial labels , namely ‘ Bird Symbols ’ ( Rhapsody , full price ) . |
| 9 | The cold eyes scrutinising her so impersonally were deep set beneath heavy black brows , and shadowed with fatigue . |
| 10 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 11 | Even when his ankle was much improved , the fracture knitting itself together most satisfactorily , she still went and would find him hobbling around the conservatory which was raw and bright , being still too new for the vines and jasmines to have masked its bare white ribs . |
| 12 | The constabulary was hard at work driving them out again and giving out cautions that whoever took in any of the evicted would himself be turned out . |
| 13 | I could n't stand a smelly cat tearin' me 'ome ter pieces , ’ she told him . |
| 14 | Rincewind took a few steps forward , cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels . |
| 15 | Dilsworth H. Brown , the AAM 's outgoing president stated at a news conference that money , or , as he put it , a ‘ financial base ’ for museums was the main issue facing them right now . |
| 16 | There have not been many examples of large companies breaking themselves up voluntarily . |
| 17 | And surely relaxing should be the easiest thing in the world , lazing in the jewel-like brilliance of the Caribbean waters , with the trade winds blowing them steadily southwards . |
| 18 | Recognition of the way in which this rhetoric drew upon previous discourses and defined the nature of authority relationships provides a more secure interpretation of the chronology of chartism 's rise and subsequent demise than can accounts describing it as merely an expression of acute social and economic deprivation . |
| 19 | Not only was the CEGB pursuing it too slowly but it had underestimated the potential , he argued . |
| 20 | The Performing Right Society is currently circulating all orchestras and bands in the country with a directive instructing them no longer to submit notification of all live performances . |
| 21 | As he approached the coast the Bf110 was in a shallow dive , the new , high-power DB601N motors driving her very fast . |
| 22 | One interesting feature of this discovery seems to me that it 's been a combination of different individuals approaching it almost laterally , in a sense , because you 're not an astronomer , particularly , are you ? |
| 23 | There 's been no shortage of excuses in the past few weeks for getting thoroughly ratted , for going down to The Lamb , finding a spot in the corner and spending the entire evening doing nothing more intellectually taxing than sinking five pints of Special . |
| 24 | Imagine a digitate delta prolonging itself rapidly seawards . |
| 25 | How is the war affecting you up there ? |
| 26 | Indeed , in so far as the law represents the embodiment of those rules deemed so important by society as to warrant setting them out formally with appropriate sanctions for non-observance , legal principles are the most important regulators of doctors ' decisions . |
| 27 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 28 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 29 | It was the first time Thiercelin could remember the marshal saying anything even remotely humorous . |
| 30 | From 10 or 20 yards you can sometimes force the ball directly into the bank , the first jump taking it almost vertically upwards and landing it softly on the edge of the green . |