Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each harsh look , each savage word was like a knife twisting in her heart . |
| 2 | ‘ Allow me to sit back in amazement , young Ashley , ’ I said , crossing my arms and twisting in my seat to face her . |
| 3 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 4 | She was twisting in his arms , hating the soft , insolent tone of his voice , the smug little smile on his mouth , hating , too , the fact that she felt powerless . |
| 5 | Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character . |
| 6 | To-day we can see Pakistani or Bengali women , walking in their traditional clothes , barely able to understand the language of the country in which they are living , acting as the repository for the pain and grief of the whole family . |
| 7 | The beautiful lady Diana Rich , daughter of the Earl of Holland , as she was walking in her father 's garden at Kensington , to take the fresh air before dinner , about eleven o'clock , being then very well , met with her own apparition , habit and everything , as in a looking-glass . |
| 8 | Bathsheba was walking in her garden , when she noticed Gabriel Oak and Mr Boldwood deep in conversation in the road . |
| 9 | She knew without being told that Ana was walking in her sleep and she was filled with horror at the girl walking through the gate and beyond , perhaps waking late and not knowing where she was , unable to see . |
| 10 | ‘ Ana was walking in her sleep , ’ she explained wearily . |
| 11 | She enjoys hiking and walking in her spare time , and also looks forward to her annual skiing expedition . |
| 12 | Those might be , for example , early stages of the retraining of walking in which a subject could still access and change the order of muscle movements . |
| 13 | Live in Jesus keep walking in his way , looking to him who is the author and perfector of our faith . |
| 14 | But then she saw his eyes staring emptily ahead of him , and knew he was walking in his sleep . |
| 15 | So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God , by walking in His ways and by fearing Him . |
| 16 | Willis , walking in his deliberate way , looked at the boxes on Maurice , paused , even shook his head a little , but did nothing . |
| 17 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 18 | If the Prime Minister is walking in his garden on a summer 's morning you could push up the rickety sash — like this — and call down to him . |
| 19 | He graced his office with dignity and performed his duties with such excellence that I know I may have difficulty in walking in his footsteps . |
| 20 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 21 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 22 | I was walking in my sleep , I told you , I 'm not responsible for what happens in the night … . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm getting good at walking in my sleep . ’ |
| 24 | But anyway , one day he found himself walking in our street , which was different to how it is now , because not only was The Bar there , which as you know is gone now , but also there were different kinds of people living in that part of town then . |
| 25 | Back with her bad news for Aunt Tossie , Nicandra found an empty room and a cold bed with its sheets and blankets turned over its brass footrail and Gigi sulking in her cage . |
| 26 | ‘ I think this is what is termed ‘ sulking in your tent ’ . |
| 27 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
| 28 | He 's sulking in his rooms . ’ |
| 29 | For a terrible nine hours , the bombardment continued , constantly intensifying in its ferocious impact . |
| 30 | He took Peter , James and John into the house where the girl was surrounded with people crying and wailing in their distress . |