Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chicken Likken was holding him to her breast with her wings , trying to comfort him . |
| 2 | There were angry calls from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street and , in the House of Commons , Labour 's Shadow Home Secretary was treating it as a gift from heaven . |
| 3 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 4 | England team manager Keith Fletcher denied that Stewart 's problems with a bruised and misshapen right index finger were preventing him from keeping wicket and defended the decision to include Blakey . |
| 5 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 6 | We undressed and walked right through the shiny white-tiled shower room where a woman attendant was scrubbing someone with a loofah . |
| 7 | Twenty years ago the same testy attitude was asserting itself in Parliament , prompting one MP to urge Mr Butler not to give in to ‘ the wild men of the Conservative Party ’ . |
| 8 | Well that policem that police woman was telling us about Southall Road di |
| 9 | Beneath it all lay Khrushchev 's hostility to the ‘ cult of personality ’ , declared at the twentieth Congress and afterwards at the very time that Mao 's personality cult was endowing him with almost divine status . |
| 10 | A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks . |