Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just needed to see you ! ’ she said with a brittle smile , walking past him on to the hot beach , feeling the tears burn her eyes . |
| 2 | Still holding her arm , he was walking with her back along the avenue , down to the sea front . |
| 3 | It is more realistic to compare the cumulative incidence at necropsy with the cumulative risk of detection of clinical cancer and the risk of dying from it up to the age of 75 . |
| 4 | This requires a successful I test , with a -20 penalty , for any character who specifically states he is looking for something out of the ordinary . |
| 5 | Nicholson dismissed the warders , returning to the window for a moment as if searching for something out in the windswept yard . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I think it 's high time you stopped looking like something out of the last century , do n't you , my sweet ? ’ her stepmother said . |
| 7 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |
| 8 | Waiting for me down on the sands — a great hulking shape , crouching there , darker than darkness . |
| 9 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 10 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 11 | At the side of the road , he raised an arm as if to hail a taxi , but it was the sleek black BMW they had travelled in the night before that came pulling towards them out of the traffic . |
| 12 | ‘ Next thing I knew Mr. Household was rushing past me out of the door . |
| 13 | But when there was no retort from her granddaughter , she turned her head and looked at the young woman lying with her back against the head of the couch , her eyes closed , the muscles of her jaws showing white through the skin , and , her tone changing , she enquired , ‘ What is it , dear ? |
| 14 | Damian pulled her out and shut the door , marching with her back down the corridors , his hand hard on her wrist , and as she went with him , hurrying to match those long strides , she understood and was horrified beyond belief . |
| 15 | The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills . |
| 16 | Quiss heard rapid footsteps approaching through the racket , and ahead of him he saw two small scullions running towards him out of the mist . |
| 17 | When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold . |
| 18 | It came moaning towards them out of the blackness . |
| 19 | She was eager to welcome whoever was coming to her out of the darkness . |
| 20 | There was a frightened gasp and the ghost rose , too , staring at him out of the two hollows that were its eyes . |
| 21 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 22 | As we passed Number 110 , I spotted Mrs Shorrocks staring at me out of the window , sporting her usual black eye and a mass of different coloured bruises which she collected from Bert most Saturday nights . |
| 23 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 24 | She wears big dark glasses and insists on sitting with her back to the throng , coincidentally facing the mirror . |
| 25 | Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness . |
| 26 | According to William , the man and the woman took all their clothes off and climbed into the bath so the woman was sitting with her back to the man , and the man peed into the water . |
| 27 | She 's standing with her back to the window and I can see a sort of thin blue light round her body . |
| 28 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 29 | Fenella was standing with her back to the silver door , watching the Melanisms . |
| 30 | Anya is now standing with her back to the fireplace . |