Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 2 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 3 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 4 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 5 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 6 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 7 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 8 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 9 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 10 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 11 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 12 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 13 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 14 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 15 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 16 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 17 | But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft . |
| 18 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |
| 19 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 20 | The registrar was regarding me over the top of his spectacles and trying not to look at his watch . |
| 21 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 22 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 23 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 24 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 25 | All these people were smacking her on the back , and touching her and congratulating her , and expressing surprise and delight . |
| 26 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 27 | But by then , Nicolo was hurrying her down the steps , out of the building , and into a black Mercedes limousine . |
| 28 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 29 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 30 | It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs . |