Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slowly kissed every part of her and suddenly he stopped , his hand running gently over her thigh , his uneven breathing easing as he explored her skin . |
| 2 | Seagram 's victory in the 1991 Grand National was an extraordinary coincidence occurring as it did in the final year of the company 's sponsorship of the race . |
| 3 | That particular snap prompted the memory , the afternoon returning as she stared at it — the sandwiches had been of marmite , Edward had found a hawk-moth caterpillar . |
| 4 | In contrast , antibodies against C/EBPδ ( 27 ) completely abolish the IL-6 induced complex suggesting that it contains C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β . |
| 5 | Well we had a secretary of state here who is now minister of transport , I do hope he 's watching this programme seeing as I promised we have had gains and proposals . |
| 6 | Ronald Duncan offered a perhaps apocryphal account of how lunch had been cancelled when Eliot sent a telegram explaining that he had to " bury a woman " . |
| 7 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |
| 8 | Then she let the door swing shut and went into her bedroom , feeling the tears sting her eyes like hot needles , her mouth trembling as she moved to her wardrobe , got her case , unzipped it and began blindly packing everything she could fit inside . |
| 9 | Fully awake now , Polly lay absolutely still , her mind racing as she tried to work out what was real and what had been part of her dream . |
| 10 | Powerboating may not have the international pull or prestige of car racing but it does pack in the crowds … |
| 11 | Keep your circulation going and you do n't get bad legs , ’ she broke in . |
| 12 | Besides , there have been so many opportunities for growth in countries that do not require local equity sharing that they have had little incentive to try to build businesses in those countries that do . |
| 13 | In the majority of cases the conveyance will be a motor car and the ‘ taking ’ is proved by a witness stating that he saw the defendant take the car , or by an admission to that effect by the defendant . |
| 14 | There was n't the same er bulk buying that you see nowadays ? |
| 15 | ‘ IN APRIL 1992 , a researcher from the BBC 's dramatised documentary programme ‘ 999 ’ contacted our Community Education Department asking if we had been involved in any unusual incident where rescues had been carried out . |
| 16 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 17 | It was , he noticed , distinctly less warm than it had been , with an east wind blowing as they turned into the Parade . |
| 18 | Well people have rung into this programme saying that they 've been put off visiting graves because this man is there . |
| 19 | 1.15 In Gregory 's case the plaintiff , who was injured in a way that could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt , suffered a 40 per cent total reduction since he was also travelling as a passenger in a car knowing that it had defective brakes . |
| 20 | He watched the body hit in a spray of snow then turned away , the roar of the wind abating as he drew the hatch closed behind him . |
| 21 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 22 | A ‘ desperate ’ candidate stands much less chance than a more relaxed candidate who goes into the interview knowing that she/he has other options . |
| 23 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 24 | However , I was not familiar with his Debussy playing and I find myself keenly interested in these five discs recorded in 1991 . |
| 25 | I could hear the shotgun barking as I walked through the dim , dripping woods from the house , staying off the muddy path as much as possible and walking on the flattened , exhausted-looking grass at its side to keep my shoes from clogging up . |
| 26 | The china was so thin that Dougal could see the level of the tea swaying as she stirred it . |
| 27 | Folly just stared , her mind spinning as she tried to fit these new facts into perspective . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that Tony Bowran makes a good living working as he does in the field of the ‘ high profile ’ advertising market — as he says , ‘ agencies are my clients , my bread and butter . ’ |
| 29 | It was a considerable struggle but with my co-author agreeing that he liked the work , I was able to deliver the typescript to my publisher three weeks before the delivery date . |
| 30 | But she could feel her mouth smiling as she said it , belying her real nervousness . |