Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [noun prp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 2 | So if I 'd still been giving Clive the best part of my days , occasions for dalliance would have been rare and risky . |
| 3 | The Director of Personnel responsible for the personal affairs of overseas executives rang Mark from Detroit to say that compensation terms had now been worked out , and that he would be visiting England the following week to discuss the subject with him . |
| 4 | I was saying Danny the other day do you remember the time he came and got out his in there ? |
| 5 | He was giving Singer the bare minimum — nothing about Nick 's death or Marianne 's disappearance , nothing about Sophie or Zeno . |
| 6 | Niki still thought Ron Dennis was giving Prost the better service . |
| 7 | I was reading Mauriac the other day : the Mémoires intérieurs , written at the very end of his life . |
| 8 | He was marrying Hazel the following weekend . |
| 9 | One night , a Wednesday , I was told that I was leaving Holloway the next day to go up to Risley remand centre because my judge was at Sheffield . |
| 10 | I was teasing Phil the other day . |