Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 2 | Robyn turned the ignition over , realising he was gaining on her with remarkable speed , and the jeep roared into life . |
| 3 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 4 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 5 | ‘ There must be many ways of making this place snugger , ’ argued Charles , looking about him with fresh eyes . |
| 6 | All these emotions vanished when Richard came bounding towards him with scarlet cheeks and shining eyes , looking happier than the detective had ever seen him . |
| 7 | He looked with amusement at her small , vivacious figure almost bouncing alongside him with effervescent high spirits . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A vision of Colonel Beamish , listening to her with undisguised scepticism , loomed before her . |
| 10 | The co-operation of these voices might be seen as the very essence of critical commentary : to interpret the text while refering to it with varying levels of precision . |
| 11 | I 'm writing to you with some good news from Pampers — for your baby , and your baby 's world . |
| 12 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 13 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 14 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 15 | Me ? ’ she said , looking at him with wide eyes . |
| 16 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 17 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 18 | ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes . |
| 19 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 20 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 21 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 22 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 23 | He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention . |
| 24 | She found herself opening her eyes , and looking at him with dazed longing . |
| 25 | But , standing in her bathroom , with her looking at him with those lovely blue eyes , her whole soul looking him in the face , her integrity undeniable , he knew the truth . |
| 26 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 27 | Louise , his warm-hearted , likeable , former neighbour was looking at him with obvious concern . |
| 28 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 29 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 30 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |