Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were exhausted going into the singles and I hated banging them in there for every match . |
| 2 | Lucy 's voice was calling her from outside on the landing . |
| 3 | Although he was pleased that they had managed to set everything up on time , he continued to mutter about the remaining android being alive , threatening them from somewhere on the planet . |
| 4 | The Dyaks of Borneo , for instance , have always referred to the orangutan as the " man of the forest " , treating him at least with the dignity accorded to neighbouring tribes , whereas the Europeans , on examining the first Tierra del Fuegans brought back to the West , could not decide whether to classify them as humans or animals . |
| 5 | Joining us from there with the story of today 's action is Tim Russell . |
| 6 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 7 | He made a lunge towards Rory , but Adam proved too fast for him , grabbing him from behind in a tackle that would have felled an ox . |
| 8 | If an arrangement is on a glass table try lighting it from underneath with an uplight . |