Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 2 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 3 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 4 | Ten miles away on that December evening , Walter Schellenberg lit a cigarette in the back of the Mercedes which was speeding him towards the castle . |
| 5 | ‘ He wanted her to go and buy some presentable clothes she could wear to the sort of smart restaurants he was taking her to . ’ |
| 6 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 7 | The birds proved to be merely the lure which was to draw us into ten years of adventure through a land of waking dreams . |
| 8 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 9 | Nicole , this is Alyssia , the young girl I was telling you about . |
| 10 | ‘ You remember the girl I was telling you about ? |
| 11 | Behind the scenes , Sir Reginald was negotiating with political leaders about the composition of the Executive Council which was to assist him in the government of the country until elections could be held . |
| 12 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 13 | She could look neither at Dr Neil , nor at the tasteless harpy who was tormenting him with her tactlessness . |
| 14 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's going to show me this museum he was telling me about . |
| 16 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 17 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 18 | It was Mrs Iverson who was telling us about it after he mentioned it . ’ |
| 19 | The situation arising from this all-too-common attitude was as follows : in the evening she was placing herself in a situation of maximum temptation as far as diet-breaking was concerned with time on her hands and food and drink all too readily available . |
| 20 | I did n't make any bread out of it , just me own gear , like , and I was still in debt to this lad who was laying it on me . |
| 21 | The ore mixed with waste to such an extent that it could not be improved by hand was mixed with other low grade stuff and barrowed to the buckers whose job it was to reduce it to walnut size for delivery to Cornish roll-crushers and then to the stamps . |
| 22 | And the job he was telling her about seemed interesting and desirable . |
| 23 | Everything was happening so fast — he could n't be aware of the crisis he was dragging me towards . |
| 24 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 25 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 26 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
| 27 | " It 's one of the things I was telling you about . |
| 28 | ‘ That policewoman I was telling you about , ’ she exclaimed over her shoulder . |
| 29 | Milton had no intention of sharing the unpopularity which was attaching itself to Sir James and promptly referred the matter to the Solicitor-General for action , but the end result , as Mrs. Campbell pointed out , was that ‘ our Member has lost his interest in this parish and really by most of our friends in the shire ’ . |
| 30 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |