Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
2 | As the sun was rising the next morning , Gabriel waited outside his hut until he saw the young woman riding up the hill . |
3 | The sun was squeezing the last moisture out of the deserted landscape . |
4 | Athelstan and Cranston looked at each other despondently as they left the church and reentered the priest 's house where the boy was lapping a second bowl of soup as hungrily as a starving dog . |
5 | This attitude was no longer conceivable to an American mind where the basic body silhouette was changing every second year . |
6 | Phil was putting the last bow on the church gates when he fell on to the 6ft railings . |
7 | When I got there , the organ was playing the 100th psalm , and , when it was done , Mr Coleridge rose and gave out his text , ‘ And he went up into the mountain to pray , HIMSELF ALONE . |
8 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
9 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
10 | Even if no mining had been carried out , the courts decided , the owners of the mineral rights still had a valid claim to the coal , and in seeking to deny them this , the government was violating the Fifth Amendment , which prohibits it from taking property without just compensation . |
11 | On top of all his other commitments , Lewis was writing the second volume of his space trilogy . |
12 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
13 | After seeing his 1853 bill side-tracked by a Royal Commission , Lord St Leonards was moving the second reading of another debtor and creditor bill in the House of Lords in 1859 , but once again many of their lordships found it all too complicated , and wanted it examined by a select committee . |
14 | In 1989 much of the world was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the start of the French Revolution . |
15 | Nottingham Forest v Norwich Norwich 's manager Dave Stringer was playing the last time his team won at Forest — in 1974 . |
16 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
17 | Dexter was pulling the last layer of bandages away , using the scissors to snip off any loose pieces , exposing the face beneath . |