Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt there was something comic in the situation and I suppose that was what set my mind wandering in the direction of Farmer Bailes ' dog , Shep . |
| 2 | I waited , my breath hanging in the cold , stale air of the telephone kiosk . |
| 3 | But no , for the ex-scumnik continued : ‘ I yearn to run across wide grasslands with a rider on my back , my tail pluming in the wind . |
| 4 | The air was all fresh on my face , I could be a loon myself , fling my arms about , shout across the mud-flats ( they looked just like the muddy backside of yesterday 's elephants ) and listen to my shout dissolving in the air before it reached the other side . |
| 5 | She flicked a quick look at Riven , taking in his scarred forehead and the Teller badge on his breast , its thread shining in the firelight . |
| 6 | The enforcement behaviour of regulatory agencies has been explained most frequently in terms of ‘ capture ’ theory , according to which an agency is co-opted by those it seeks to regulate , incorporating and reflecting their concerns into its decision making in the interests of stability and self-preservation ( e.g. Selznick , 1966 ) . |
| 7 | Louise walked up the path , her heart dragging in the dirt . |
| 8 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 9 | Ironically this transformation was in no small degree the consequence of the increasing technicality of the law to which the clerical judges themselves had so fertilely contributed by their advice , judgements and writings ; it had now become necessary to recruit judges from those who had served their apprenticeship pleading in the courts and had perhaps sought instruction from the law lectures and books which were then being provided . |
| 10 | In the morning foursomes Alliss and Dawson were level par for 17 holes in defeating Bruce Critchley and Warren Humphreys on the 18th green , the only blemish on their card coming in the shape of a 7 on the 7th hole . |
| 11 | David heard her key fumbling in the lock . |
| 12 | She shook her head , her mouth quivering in the suspicion of a smile . |
| 13 | TDS.1 was responsible for the development of glider aircraft for the rapid deployment of personnel and equipment , their work resulting in the Hamilcar and Horsa designs . |
| 14 | She will have spent the last 30 years of their marriage sitting in the passenger seat of the car which she is still unable to drive , disappearing into the kitchen when his climbing friends call round for a beer , and laughing dutifully at his mountain anecdotes over a dinner she has made for his boss . |
| 15 | Anthony 's voice opened Julia 's eyes and she saw her sister-in-law standing in the doorway wearing a most remarkable dress . |
| 16 | ANNE Garwood was horrified when she looked out of the window and saw her husband taking in the milk . |
| 17 | ‘ And … and she grabbed the rope round the mule 's neck and … and led it away to safety , leaving her husband lying in the road . |
| 18 | She thought of her husband shaving in the morning in trousers and vest . |
| 19 | By the middle of the nineteenth century Lancashire was the most urbanized county in England , with over half its population living in the fourteen towns which contained more than 10,000 inhabitants each . |
| 20 | The problem of assessing which of the team members has made a large enough contribution to the result to warrant their name appearing in the author list for the published paper is rather difficult . |
| 21 | The problem of assessing which of the team members has made a large enough contribution to the result to warrant their name appearing in the author list for the published paper is rather difficult . |
| 22 | They spend most of their day lying in the shade … it 's always between 75 and 85 degrees and they enjoy coming into the open bar to meet guests . |
| 23 | Mrs Barrett said she found her nephew hanging in the bedroom of his home in Oakhill Road , Oak Vale Park , Liverpool , on the evening of February 11 . |
| 24 | Ah this was really just Yona and and me you know I mean Yona obviously felt very strongly about her father standing in the rain on the picket line worked hard all his life an it had come to this really being sacked er they were just newly sacked then . |
| 25 | Out of the window she could see her father sitting in the plastic chair by the pool . |
| 26 | If she had asked for Ward Five he would have told her morning visiting in the public wards was forbidden and he might , because he was feeling benevolent , have called her love . |
| 27 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |
| 28 | The view from her top-floor flat never failed to please her as the whole city of Branchester stretched out before her : the cathedral with its spire gleaming in the early-morning sunlight , the buildings where ancient and modern blended together harmoniously , the canal like a silver ribbon with its brightly painted barges and the Norman boundary wall that enclosed it all . |
| 29 | There was a knock on the door and she stiffened , her breath stilling in the throat . |
| 30 | He watched her as she went past at a walk , the black Labrador and he both gazing wistfully , their breath steaming in the cold February morning . |