Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 2 | Sorvino glanced at his observer and saw that he was half-turned in his seat and looking out towards the back of the car . |
| 3 | And he turned back to the Toyota , reaching in to the rear seat and coming out with the blasting plunger . |
| 4 | But the lesson of the Kennedy case is that if you have the chance to take another job before your redundancy has been confirmed , you may have to choose between safeguarding your future and cashing in on the job rights built up over the years in your present employment . |
| 5 | I nod at Andy , taking yet another opened magnum and leaning out over the glass-stacked table . |
| 6 | Bullets from somewhere rapped his own aircraft , and then he was hurdling the bomber and flattening out above the battered grass of the field . |
| 7 | She was wasting her breath , she saw , for Ven was already out of the car and coming round to the passenger door . |
| 8 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 9 | At your command , our unique GPS Man Overboard feature immediately goes into a special plot mode which continuously gives range and bearing back to the location at which it was activated . |
| 10 | On 22 January 1946 he agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) , which was to be a small organisation simply collating all forms of foreign intelligence and reporting back to the president through the National Intelligence Authority ( NIA ) . |
| 11 | Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) . |
| 12 | No other words were needed and he stood , walking to the window and looking out at the courtyard that was bathed in sunlight . |
| 13 | Having said that , the vague possibility that we may end this season by finishing bottom and going out of the League remains incomprehensible to me and I am at a loss to explain it . |
| 14 | The water , flooding over the pastures in winter and oozing up through the summer marshes , held the key to these balanced systems . |
| 15 | In former times George 's Lane , starting close by the church , toll-house and former inn and running down to the river , was the village 's main link with the outside world and the river Lynher the main artery for trade and industry . |
| 16 | This unthreatening introduction into discussing a marital difficulty and an explanation that a combination of therapy approaches , that is managing the child and facing up to the marital disagreements , is likely to be most effective and help the parents understand the link . |
| 17 | Nearly everyone came down according to plan , but Sgt Paul Flood surprised everyone by missing the drop zone and coming down behind the crowd . |
| 18 | Then , to Perdita 's squirming embarrassment , he replayed the clip of her rowing with the umpire three times , freezing the frame of her yelling with her mouth wide open , until her teammates were howling with laughter and rolling round on the floor . |
| 19 | As the sea is calm I turn in to a narrow cleft on the headland , cutting the engine and gliding in between the faces of grey rock to let my passengers get the flavour of the sights and sounds of a Shetland geo . |
| 20 | Playing about with the engine and playing about with the body work , trying to do it up and all this and they just they just |
| 21 | The difference between an action under the Act and a negligence action , is that in the latter the plaintiff must show that the defendant was negligent , i.e. that he failed to take reasonable care in the preparation and putting up of the product . |
| 22 | and we 're , we 're going on the Friday afternoon and coming back on the Monday afternoon . |
| 23 | Gould remembers following the driver and lying down on the floor of the car face down , waiting for the ambush to pass . |
| 24 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 25 | Naps during the daytime and waking up during the night would both increase ; these changes are often observed . |
| 26 | He stayed where he was , leaning over the rail and looking out across the straits towards Spain . |
| 27 | " Then tell us a bit more about the natives , " said Chuck lightly , sipping his champagne and glancing around at the little groups of Annamese who were tending to draw closer together as the babble of noise from the French around them grew louder . |
| 28 | He did n't mind losing his board and slogging in through the breaking waves . |
| 29 | The reason for the preserving and passing on of the traditions in this way was that they were used primarily by the early Church in its teaching of the community . |
| 30 | A company seeking a flotation might be better off skipping the OTC and starting out on the third market or USM . |