Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 2 | Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’ |
| 3 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 4 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
| 5 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
| 6 | A girl from another broken family ‘ used to sleep in the same bed as grandma — I was sleeping with her the night she was found dead the following morning . ’ |
| 7 | Was sleeping with him the price you had to pay for having him throw a little business your way ? ’ |