Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 2 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 3 | At last , when he thought he could wait no longer , he glimpsed Benedicta slip silently up the nave to join the other two members of his congregation , kneeling between them at the entrance to the rood screen . |
| 4 | He looks and the bear 's hanging off it at the side , grrr ! on the window and the man goes aargh ! and the man runs off and he gets on he gets on an aeroplane the aeroplane and he 's safe . |
| 5 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 6 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 7 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 8 | Andrew sat down on the corner of the bed , his aged and baggy trousers flaring about him like the leggings of a geriatric Zouave . |
| 9 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 10 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 11 | And Marcus came to be walking between them to a partitioned corner of the changing room . |
| 12 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 13 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 14 | That last taut exchange with Roman seemed to have whipped up some invisible energy that would n't let her relax , prickling through her like an electric storm . |
| 15 | I was going to shout to tell them they had forgotten me , when suddenly I saw a huge creature walking after them into the sea . |
| 16 | Things , however , came to a head one day when a veterinary surgeon on his rounds , in a regulation Volvo estate , was alarmed to see Noddy tearing towards him on the wrong side of the road , in hot pursuit of a Transit van . |
| 17 | ‘ You always did stay up late , ’ she said , moving towards him , standing provocatively close , before walking past him into the hall . |
| 18 | I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall . |
| 19 | Maura began walking towards them like a condemned man on his way to the gallows . |
| 20 | As Sara leaned over the gate , a slight figure who had been obscured behind them began walking towards her along the hedge . |
| 21 | Constance had no time to assess the bewildering exchange of tone that the lunch party had taken before Giancarlo was walking towards her with a vivacious woman by his side who was busily blowing kisses and calling ‘ Ciao ’ to the tables she passed . |
| 22 | And then , the enormous figure with rust-coloured moustaches walking towards her in the hall . |
| 23 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 24 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 25 | K. R. You might be in Park Lane and a fellow 's walking towards you with a suitcase . |
| 26 | Teal saw torch beams bobbing towards him from a side corridor and grabbed Bernice 's arm . |
| 27 | ‘ For cutting animals up and disposing of them in a public place . ’ |
| 28 | Some of those pigments presumably behaved in the way that melanin behaves in human skin , absorbing solar energy , disposing of it through the body as heat . |
| 29 | The Sussex campus was shrinking below me into a collection of children 's play houses , then models , then crumbs , then fly droppings . |
| 30 | He nearly fell off his bench , groping behind him in the darkness , and heard the metal box clatter as it slipped past his fingers . |