Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The condition of his sister still playing on his mind , young Jefferies had fled , saying nothing to anyone until he had read of the seriousness of the crime . |
| 2 | Berdichev shivered but stood straighter , his skin still tingling from the shower . |
| 3 | In it Timmy would crawl for hours or pull himself up and stand precariously balancing , his napkin invariably falling about his knees . |
| 4 | Thanks to television … the nation had an armchair view of the violence : uprooted telegraph poles , rolling down the hill towards the police cordon ; a workmen 's hut dragged into the road and going up in petrol-fed flames ; a lone policeman with his truncheon repeatedly laying into a recumbent miner ; the wall of riot shields parting like the Red Sea as groups of police , in black one-piece suits and NATO helmets , dashed into the crowded pickets while a senior officer , with loud-hailer , encouraged them to ‘ take prisoners ’ . |
| 5 | Rory straightened his tie , and with his whisky still burning in his throat , and now his stomach too , he moved along to the gap in the curtains and slid through , back into the ballroom , where people sat drinking at long wooden tables and groups of dancers went whirling round in complicated , ever-changing patterns , all flowing dresses and clasping hands and big red sweaty faces and white shirts and ties and narrow trousers or — even worse — kilts . |
| 6 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 7 | Whitlock smiled politely , his mind still reeling from the way she had dissected his cover story , piece by piece , until there was nothing left for him to hide behind . |
| 8 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson paced slowly back and forth from one side of his office to the other , his gaze occasionally shifting to the blackboard behind his desk . |
| 9 | Luke nodded slowly , his gaze never moving from her face . |
| 10 | Perhaps the sight of his body visibly aging in front of her . |
| 11 | Travis came down beside her then , his body half resting over her , hands framing her face . |
| 12 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 13 | He jumped the queue at the ticket counter — his stub realized $I8- but he went on standing there in line , his head babyishly lolling with impatience , before he peeled off into the store-flanked tunnels . |
| 14 | I watched Eric fall slowly asleep , his head gently tipping to one side , eyes closing . |
| 15 | I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits . |
| 16 | Aware of his supper rapidly cooling under his arm , Coffin nevertheless let the conversation go on . |
| 17 | Through dazed , clouded eyes she gazed up at him , the taste of his kiss still tingling on her mouth , her heart beating an erratic tattoo within her breast . |
| 18 | He sat forward and placed his hand on the pad , his palm still tingling from the effects of the shock . |
| 19 | He looked down and saw his colleague still lying in the mud , not daring to move . |
| 20 | At last he turned north again , his dog still running at his heels , and set off to a village just outside London . |
| 21 | Tom Holdfast turned slowly in his chair , his finger still resting on the button which he seemed so loath to irrevocably press . |
| 22 | He lay prone on top of her for a few moments then he rolled to one side , panting loudly , his breath slowly returning to normal . |
| 23 | Inside the office Scott touched the cheek she had slapped , his breath still coming in gasps . |
| 24 | In other towns he 'd left way before the question mark , his Coke still fizzing at the top of the glass . |
| 25 | Daak was kicking the wall , his chainsword still hacking at the edges of the hole it had torn in the metallic substance . |
| 26 | He leaned still further across the table , his shoulders hunched , his voice scarcely rising above a whisper . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose I should warn you , ’ he said , his voice hardly quavering at all , ‘ that this is a magic sword . ’ |
| 28 | I would 'ave took that title , Danny , ’ he said passionately , his voice almost breaking with a note of despair . |
| 29 | ‘ Bob is a marvellous writer ! ’ said Dyson , his voice almost breaking with emotion at his own generosity . |
| 30 | He settled back in the chair , his leg accidentally brushing against Alyssia 's , and looked as though he was highly intrigued by the conversation and in no hurry to excuse himself . |