Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or heard yourself screaming in a high pitch while arguing fruitlessly with your nearest and dearest ? |
| 2 | Initially it was the drumming that got me bouncing in my seat , but when the bass came in I just could n't help grinning insanely at all the other drivers , wishing they could hear it too ( mind you , I had it up so loud that they probably could ) . |
| 3 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 4 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 5 | She could feel a coolness on her brow , and would have reached up her fingers to find out what was there , but that she was possessed by a lassitude that prevented her moving at all . |
| 6 | They moved on , down the cathedral-like space , soaring columns that dwarfed them disappearing into the swirling mist . |
| 7 | But it was ‘ Tusk ’ that started me thinking along the lines of trying to be true to what I think 's interesting and not necessarily just what people want to hear . ’ |
| 8 | I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed . |
| 9 | He kicked the chair aside with a violence that sent it crashing across the floor . |
| 10 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 11 | One can also add that St Paul , who plumbs the depths of desolation but also knows the heights of consolation and joy , provided Montini with a practical spirituality that kept him going throughout his long ‘ hidden life ’ in the Secretariat of State ( 1925–54 ) , his pastoral ministry in Milan ( 1955–63 ) and finally , his Petrine ministry . |
| 12 | To her dismay , hot tears burned her eyes in frustration at the physical weakness that kept her kneeling in such a submissive attitude at his feet for several more seconds . |
| 13 | Le Tissier went on a run that took him ghosting past two defenders only for Baker to save . |
| 14 | He reached out and tugged her into the V of his thighs , dropping his mouth to hers and taking it in a kiss that left her gasping for breath and so shaken she could barely stand . |
| 15 | He pulled her to him , kissing her with a fierce , demanding passion that left her clinging to him . |
| 16 | With various delicate transitions that left me sighing in assent , the film now turned into a gentle parodic love story , the girl civilizing Spunk — teaching him how to dress , eat , speak — and Spunk decivilizing her : teaching her to kick the booze , the pick-ups , the self-destruction , the money ( they go primitive for a while , after Spunk has an urban breakdown . |
| 17 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 18 | Jezrael could hear the wires that crowned it humming with power . |
| 19 | Neither , though , does he regret re-signing for the club last summer after intense speculation that had him moving under freedom of contract to an assortment of clubs in England or the continent . |
| 20 | His tongue teased at her lips until she opened them helplessly , allowing him to deepen the kiss , his tongue stroking hers in an act of burning sexuality that had her sagging against him . |
| 21 | It seemed that , every time she resolved not to let her wayward emotions get the better of her , he said something that had her responding to him like a fourteen-year-old star-struck teenager all over again . |
| 22 | Right at this moment she would have given anything for a sight of Shirley and endured her fussing with pleasure . |
| 23 | Ginny smoothed her hands on her dress and got her breathing under some sort of control . |
| 24 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 25 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |
| 26 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 27 | He suddenly looked up and caught her looking at him . |
| 28 | He turned and caught her looking at him as they strolled idly along by the whispering dark Mediterranean , and impulsively he stopped and pulled her into his arms for a quick hard hug . |
| 29 | He looked up suddenly , and caught her staring at him . |
| 30 | He looked up and caught her staring at him . |