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 .
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