Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] [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 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
| 3 | Again she found that she was quivering slightly as she studied the picture of Richard Parsons . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then he darted out of the room , pausing only when he reached the barn , to lean against the door and breathe deeply . |
| 8 | I saw him grinning ferally as he worked the gun with both hands , spent cartridges flying into the air . |
| 9 | Rory made her way woodenly to the dressing-room , shivering slightly as she heard the familiar sounds of the nightclub band tuning up . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Check that this equipment is operating satisfactorily before you leave the ground . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When his hand found the rounded contour of her bare breast under her blouse she shuddered convulsively against him , pressing her body forward , her breath coming and going quickly as he rubbed the raised bud of her nipple . |
| 15 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 16 | Please believe that , at least , ’ she finished brokenly , not caring now if he saw the naked pleading in her eyes . |
| 17 | People lied about their intentions up to the moment of voting and went on lying even as they left the polling stations , saying they had voted for Labour when they had voted Tory , ’ he says . |
| 18 | FitzAlan glanced over his shoulder , turning fully when he saw the ugly discolouration along her cheekbone and the narrow line of dried blood where she had been cut by a ring . |
| 19 | Keep going then till we finish the alphabet then we 'll do food . |
| 20 | Now , although no bombs ever fell in the country district where they lived , from time to time the air raid warning sirens would sound and Sylvia 's mother would take her baby and make her way to the shelter at the bottom of the garden , remaining there until she heard the ‘ all-clear ’ . |
| 21 | Why do n't you take that wet anorak off and get the fire going again while I make the drinks ? ’ |
| 22 | And even though big spending Blackburn seems certain to be Keane 's choice , his Nottingham Forest manager Frank Clark insisted : ‘ Roy 's going nowhere until we get the £5 million at which we value him . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't own me , Jim , ’ she hissed , her voice faltering slightly as she saw the look of pure rage etched across his features . |
| 24 | They both cried out as they reached and went beyond that white-hot explosion , holding tight as they crested the wave and slowly drifted back to reality . |
| 25 | But Michael called me the other day to say : ‘ I was n't getting anywhere until you contacted the insurance company and my agents . |
| 26 | He would go some way to doing so if he told the House tonight that he intends to monitor carefully what is happening and to initiate independent research into the strengths and weaknesses of the new system in its initial stages . |
| 27 | Writing to Ellen , never her most sympathetic correspondent , was dreary work since all she could think of were frantic pleas to tell her of Oreste and she grew tired of begging long before she reached the end of the first sheet . |
| 28 | Could I just follow on what Mr was saying earlier when he introduced the he he referred to that er are no references to incinerators in the structural plan . |
| 29 | A crack the size of the Grand Canyon streaked up the drive , stopping only when it reached the garage doors . |
| 30 | The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ? |