Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
| 2 | I was digging the last row next to the gravel path when my father returned . |
| 3 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
| 4 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 5 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 6 | I I found it when I was driving the last time . |
| 7 | She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died . |
| 8 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
| 9 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
| 10 | Lisa Isherwood of Wales sustained a broken leg during a Home International foursomes tie against Scotland , after she slipped and fell on wet ground as she was leaving the 8th green . |
| 11 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 12 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 13 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 14 | She was re-reading the last line of the message which had n't sunk in till now . |
| 15 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 16 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 17 | James Halden returned just as she was finishing the last frill , and she jumped up as soon as she heard his steps on the stair . |
| 18 | What a man like Siward would do , who was hiding a second time in a forest and had blown the withdrawal within minutes of the Normans ' arrival . |
| 19 | The story is told of a professor who was giving the first lecture of the year to a group of new medical students . |
| 20 | A 46 year old Worcestershire man , who was driving the second car , also died . |
| 21 | that 's just they 're the people I 'm going to interview okay then you 've got example yesterday at approximately nine twenty Bacon 's technical college at went up in a barrage of smoke taking one life which is believed to be that of the caretaker who was having a last minute check before leaving the building in the evening . |
| 22 | There was bickering the next morning too . |
| 23 | It was nearing the ninth hour , and Jesus , who had resisted sin throughout his life , now , because of his obedience , became sin itself — not by wilful act but by being made the crucible of the whole sum of human evil . |
| 24 | It was while he was bringing a second helping of kedgeree to Fishbane that the row broke out a few tables away . |
| 25 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 26 | Here with ZETA he was overseeing the first example of the reverse process — the controlled fusion of light elements and detection of the products , the neutrons . |
| 27 | She knew he was remembering the last time they had drunk Martinis together and what she had said to him then . |
| 28 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 29 | He got up and was about to return to his house to wash the dirt from Meg 's grave from his hands when Cranston swaggered in , throwing the door open as if he was announcing the Second Coming . |