Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 2 | DERYCK FOX helped himself to 13 points with a try , four goals and a drop goal to take the man of the match award and send Widnes crashing out of the Regal Trophy . |
| 3 | Benedict watched him go and then turned to find Theda leaning back against the mantel , white to the lips , one hand at her bosom . |
| 4 | When Morton came in , a few minutes later , he found Bragg staring out of the window , his dead pipe clenched between his teeth . |
| 5 | When his militiamen had stormed onto the Jiyeh coast road and killed the remaining Phalangist defenders there in 1985 , I found Walid leaning back in an old wooden chair in one of his palace reception rooms , swigging from a bottle of frozen Czech lager and lamenting the moral improprieties of war . |
| 6 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 7 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 8 | ‘ I said I 'd seen Sam hanging about on the towpath with a bunch of yobs . ’ |
| 9 | August 1992 sees Tim setting off on a journey much nearer home and this time he 's inviting the wine-loving gourmets of Britain to join him . |
| 10 | Nigel Mott made sure of the three points two minutes from time , and he could see Milton going back to the top of the table this evening . |
| 11 | Nevil Sanderson going out with a female Tory , ye Gods and little fishes ! ’ |
| 12 | Hitch held her gaze until he heard Plummer heading back towards the kitchen . |
| 13 | ‘ If you ask me , that 's going a bit far , ’ said Ozaran as he watched Jinkwa snuggling up to the dead body of the General . |
| 14 | As he watched Melody walking back to the farm , deliberately exaggerating the swing of her hips for his benefit , Seb was thinking of Anna . |
| 15 | As she opened the front door of 97 , Becky could hear Daphne splashing around in the bath . |
| 16 | Patrick watched Chris setting off down the 10th and then cut across to the 11th green , which was quite close . |
| 17 | When he saw Duclos striding back across the compound dragging a young Annamese boy behind him , he smiled quietly to himself , stepped back into his bedroom and began fumbling with the buttons of his silk shirt . |
| 18 | ‘ I will look after Celia , ’ Liza replied , picking up the telephone , and the calm decisive way in which she handled the situation sent Edna running off up the lane with Bobby , without further demurrence . |
| 19 | STEVE NICOL 'S extra-time blunder sent Liverpool spinning out of the Coca-Cola Cup as Crystal Palace 's patchwork heroes claimed a famous victory at Selhurst Park last night . |
| 20 | The next thing , he saw Lee looking out of the window . |
| 21 | Ipswich could have fallen further behind after 54 minutes when Wilkinson sent Hendrie tearing through on the left on his own . |
| 22 | Then as she looked she saw Kate getting out of the back . |
| 23 | A sharp , heavy knock sent Nadia scrambling out into the cold half-light of the early morning . |
| 24 | A series of small explosions one morning brought Alec running out to the top of the steps . |
| 25 | Blunt , coming up behind him and hauling back on the control column to get his plane over the hedge , saw Peacock sliding out of the sky and tried to turn inside him . |
| 26 | I was nearly at the top of the post part when I saw Julie getting out of a car . |
| 27 | At the same time , out of the comer of his eye , he saw Tony coming out of the ticket-booth . |
| 28 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 29 | Moran said : ‘ Director Jack Walker 's money has enabled the manager to put down a good foundation and if we can get Roy coming in alongside the likes of Alan Shearer , the club will really be going places . ’ |
| 30 | As we read the correspondence we seem to see Dorothy growing out of the gushing flibbertigibbet that she was in 1909 into a person altogether more substantial . |