Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after the case I was walking down the street and a policeman went past , laughed sneeringly and said , ‘ Got you , did n't we ? ’ |
| 2 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 3 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 4 | It was also necessary to fabricate and fit a new rotating cowl to replace the louvred terminal which was missing from the apex of the south-east roundel . |
| 5 | He attended Germaine Greer 's first feminist lecture , but if he had a connection with the ferment of drugs , ‘ sexual politics ’ and revolutionary doo-da which was stewing amid the spires , it was probably distant and reserved . |
| 6 | The Survey Service watch-keeper indicated the data which was flowing across the screen at his side and Rostov nodded . |
| 7 | ‘ Ihre Kameraden , ’ said a soldier who was sitting by the window . |
| 8 | Readers who were detecting in the late 1970s and 1980s will remember the range of excellent specialist diggers designed and manufactured by Buffallo Tools of Rayleigh in Essex . |
| 9 | In her mind she was acting under the highest orders — to give and serve and take up her cross daily . |
| 10 | Angrily she turned to the door and yanked it open , almost colliding with David Markham who was standing on the threshold . |
| 11 | Then with a splash she was plunging into the crystal-clear water , and , an instant later , bobbing unharmed to the surface . |
| 12 | oh my god it 's the incredible hulk oh and you know Jayne with the skirt up here , well in English study she was walking up the steps like this |
| 13 | oh my god it 's the incredible hulk oh and you know Jayne with the skirt up here , well in English study she was walking up the steps like this |
| 14 | Marie turned , hearing noises behind her , then broke into a smile , bowing to the two elderly gentlemen who were passing in the corridor . |
| 15 | Her room was lit by a single naked bulb which hung from the ceiling and shone harshly on Ellen who was standing in the doorway of her tiny bathroom . |
| 16 | In fact , he would have made an ideal barrister — and he defended quite a lot of men who were indicted for various things — got them away because he was too cute for the superintendent who was dealing with the job . |
| 17 | As Lisa pulled the door open Josey stepped out into the night … and literally came within a hair 's breadth of walking straight into the tall dark figure who was striding up the path . |
| 18 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 19 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 20 | During the months they were waiting for the divorce he came to see her nearly every day . |
| 21 | With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance . |
| 22 | As I got out of the car he was coming down the steps of Skeldale House and he put a hand on my arm . |
| 23 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 24 | A test ban would destabilise the nuclear balance because neither side could be sure what effect it was having on the other . |
| 25 | Even the pods he was giving to the pigs , he would have liked to have eaten himself . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State went on to say that he was concerned that the letter from Grand Metropolitan Estates tried to imply that the orders had forced the company into the action it was taking against the tenant . |
| 27 | Two further problems confronted the manager : was the national curriculum up to the age of 16 going to feed sensibly through to new policies which were emerging from the combination of general and vocational education from 16 to 19 ? |
| 28 | We know from archaeology that Birka was at the northern end of a flourishing trade route which was beginning in the 830s and 840s to bring in huge quantities of silver from the Muslim-controlled trade routes between Byzantium and China . |
| 29 | Sometimes , too , there was evidence on these cards of the conflicts which were raging in the minds of the garrison . |
| 30 | Both were seen as sources of disease , bodily or spiritual , moral corruptions which were spreading throughout the land . |