Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | With a sudden surge of defiance she tossed back her head , sending her long wheat-coloured mane rippling over her shoulders , her eyes flashing challengingly as she pulled the microphone free of its stand . |
2 | The wind was easterly so they would be returning over our heads onto the main runway , and as the aircraft started to come back they seemed to be only a few feet above us , touching down after they crossed the far hedge . |
3 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
4 | Again she found that she was quivering slightly as she studied the picture of Richard Parsons . |
5 | This time he did n't open the door for her , and she had difficulty keeping up as he took the front stairs two at a time . |
6 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
7 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
8 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
9 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
10 | I turned round to go , but things were blurring again and I misjudged the turn and banged my head against the edge of the door . |
11 | She was still laughing softly as she laid the phone down , but the laughter died in her throat as she looked up to see Adam standing a few feet away , his eyes hard as jet . |
12 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |
13 | We then continued our journey , pushing on until we reached the city walls and lodged at one of the fine taverns on the Southwark side of the river . |
14 | Then he darted out of the room , pausing only when he reached the barn , to lean against the door and breathe deeply . |
15 | You know , suppose parliament starts breaking the rules and acting arbitrarily and I say the mechanism is not clear . |
16 | I saw him grinning ferally as he worked the gun with both hands , spent cartridges flying into the air . |
17 | Rory made her way woodenly to the dressing-room , shivering slightly as she heard the familiar sounds of the nightclub band tuning up . |
18 | Moi children who had heard the noise of their approach came running helter-skelter to surround them and began shouting excitedly when they saw the dead deer . |
19 | One of these er , I suppose it 'd be a ballpoint or whatever you call it and this , I 've still got it , it says on the Queen Elizabeth , see , and er , you see , we said , we said , well never mind very much , we can have something a snack afterwards and so we stayed on there from eleven o'clock in the morning until three in the afternoon , you see , and er er and we were wandering around and we saw the dining room , we saw the captain 's table and er , you know it was , and , and then we looked along one deck , we were high up , and down below there were rows of , rows of lifeboats in case you see |
20 | Woolley side-slipped and fell behind it , then climbed and injected a long burst into its belly , searching forwards until he saw the bullets slashing up between the wing-roots . |
21 | You must ensure when seeking permission to go rabbiting anywhere that you get the consent from someone legally able to give it to you . |
22 | Check that this equipment is operating satisfactorily before you leave the ground . |
23 | Although all of us are deeply concerned to know precisely what happened in East Timor , will she bear it in mind that , since Indonesia took over East Timor a few years ago , there has been considerable development of the infrastructure in that country , and that , although no one condones that massacre , we must know what has been going on before we adopt the language that we heard from the Labour party ? |
24 | We are within the Constitution as it stands , nothing illegal is going on and we claim the right to be treated as democratic citizens assembling as we are free to do . |
25 | Also , as compared with a shot in which the subject traverses the picture directly from one side to the other , the diagonal movement gives the eye longer in which to take in what is going on and it reduces the need to pan the camera to follow the subject . |
26 | Yeah , I thought something was going on cos you left the sound |
27 | The sun was already going down when I reached the top of the hill . |
28 | I was just going in when I saw the sign . |
29 | As I said , we 've already got forty one percent of the the the main funding required er , for the project and er we 're relatively erm confident that with our own money going in and yourself putting the er the loan in for the nothing er that a our bids are gon na be successful in future years . |
30 | Then , turning aside before he reached the porch , he used his own keys to open a small iron-barred gate leading to a narrow passageway . |