Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Once there , Maria let her robe slide from her shoulders before stepping quickly out of her pants while Luke undressed swiftly , tantalising shadows playing over his flesh , revealed and then tormentingly concealed as he moved in and out of the circle of soft golden light that came from the lamp at one side of her low , wide bed .
2 She British ladies withdrawing , after their dinner from the frozen stores of English food flown into the Embassy shop , to powder their noses before flowing eagerly back to their men sipping brandy on the terrace under trees prodigal with flame-of-the-forest blossoms .
3 An alternative procedure yields rafts of trophectodermal epithelium from the mural region of the blastocyst , and involves forming " giant " blastocysts by aggregating together up to 10 morulae as described in Section 3.3 .
4 We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors .
5 Escaping to her room , she shut the door with careful control behind her , then wedged a chair under the handle with trembling fingers before sinking weakly on to the seat and burying her hot face in her hands .
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