Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had always believed everything he did and said to be sincere and genuinely personal , but gradually small cracks began appearing in his carefully constructed persona and well-tended integrity . |
| 2 | In a daze of ever-increasing passion , she barely noticed as he gently removed her clothes , suddenly glad to be free of them and astonished to find herself revelling in his softly whispered murmurs of delight , the fierce gleam in his grey eyes , before first his fingers and then his lips began tracing patterns of fire on her quivering flesh . |
| 3 | At the lowest levels this does not matter : syllables can be identified from the text , and syllables group into clitic phrases , consisting of one lexically stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables which are immediately associated with it , either by being in the same word or by being proclitic or enclitic to it . |
| 4 | By gazing towards him yet avoiding eye-contact , she is showing non-compliance . |
| 5 | Rachel was almost shaking herself , studying his face , listening to his softly spoken words , and her heart was pounding fiercely ; she felt fear and excitement flooding her and she knew she could not match him — not tonight , not with the strain she was under . |
| 6 | If you are dismissed at the end of your first year , concentrating on the terms of the contract leads to the conclusion that you ordinarily worked in Great Britain , whereas looking at what actually happened leads to the opposite conclusion . |
| 7 | ‘ Luke will , ’ Anna said unfairly , turning away and looking at her beautifully dug earth , and thinking how much she would just like to lie down on it and sleep . |
| 8 | ‘ Rejoicing in their newly found freedom from school discipline and with more surplus cash than they will ever again possess ’ , one of the contributors to Whitehouse 's Problems of Boy Life ( 1912 ) believed that youths were ‘ tempted to spend as little time at home as possible … the street , rather than the sleeping place , is the home of the average youth ’ . |
| 9 | The talks ended without agreement upon a joint statement , with each side adhering to its previously outlined position . |
| 10 | Angel proceeded to put on an incredible display of histrionics , peacock-blue eyes flashing , nostrils flaring above his furiously pouting mouth , as he shouted and swore at Alejandro . |
| 11 | Oddly enough , these characteristics were almost wholly lacking in his cleverly designed sets , which were , none the less , imaginative and alluring , and still perfectly in keeping with this lyrical production . |
| 12 | Most of us clinging to our recently lost life style can be excused for hunting an acceptable substitute for the ‘ real McCoy ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Why Australia ? ’ she asked , breathing on her recently painted nails . |
| 14 | I follow Rachel up the stairs , feeling like I just paid money in one of those Soho hotels where you take a girl and hire a room by the hour . |
| 15 | The indigenous leaders and organisations working with them later thanked Amnesty International for its intervention . |
| 16 | After that we spent a lot of time practising in what later became Riverside Studios . |
| 17 | She picked one up , stood there swaying in her newly learnt balance , and crumpled the leaf . |