Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lifeboat crew took the victim to Tees Dock , where an ambulance was waiting to rush him to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 2 | He could feel the vibrations in his bones ; juddering the cradle he was strapped into , making him think for a moment that the tiny vehicle was going to shake itself to pieces . |
| 3 | And no nasty dream was going to spoil it for her . |
| 4 | Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family . |
| 5 | Émile was going to revenge himself on Jean-Claude for what he regarded as his arrogance . |
| 6 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 7 | Sooner or later she would have found out for herself , and the interrogation would have been worse still if she 'd thought Rory was trying to keep her in the dark about such a momentous event in her life . |
| 8 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own — um — illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about . |
| 9 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … you are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ : here , almost fully out in the open now , brazenly direct , we come to the gangrenous core of the rotten , shit-smeared campaign directed at me . |
| 11 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 12 | As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 14 | Daddy was going to rebuild it with his own hands and had already done a bit to it when I was young . |
| 15 | The lift was small and Rain was trying to distance herself from Oliver without pressing up against Wickham . |
| 16 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 17 | When , in a remarkable act of cultural smash-and-grab , working-class youths adopted the long drape jackets as their own uniform — to which they added embellishments such as greased duck-tail haircuts , thick-soled ‘ brothel creeper ’ shoes , slim-jim ties and narrow drain-pipe trousers — no self-respecting gentleman was going to adorn himself in what had now become a vulgar ‘ Ted suit ’ . |
| 18 | At first I thought the kick was going to leave him with a permanently capped hock , but luckily Lynn Russell ( the friend , show producer and dealer who sold Skipper to me ) had all the answers , as usual . |
| 19 | I was expecting that Mrs was going to tell us about it . |
| 20 | It seemed to Talbot that Van Gelder was going to find himself in something of a quandary . |
| 21 | Because it had suddenly occurred to her that Guy Sterne was bothering to justify himself like this only because his relationship with Nicola Schreider was threatened if he did n't . |
| 22 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 23 | During September there were signs that Jordan was attempting to distance itself from Iraq in order to restore relations with its former allies in the Gulf . |
| 24 | Uncle Harry was going to cast her as the hitchhiker in Mondo Desire . |
| 25 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 26 | Before the Tate/LaBianca murders happened , however , Charles Manson was attempting to make it as a rock star . |
| 27 | Then I started to get a feeling that the Lord was going to move me from my present job . |
| 28 | Caroline remembered that moment when she had thought Nicolo was going to take her in his arms . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , hopefully , it 'll all be sorted out by now ; Jennifer was going to explain everything at home . ’ |
| 30 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |