Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 2 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 3 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 4 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |
| 5 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 6 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 7 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 8 | Before I knew it , she was lying beside me in the small white tent . |
| 9 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 10 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 11 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 12 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 13 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 14 | He was waiting for her in the lounge . |
| 15 | She put down the receiver , feeling much happier , and even enjoyed the lukewarm haddock that was waiting for her in the kitchen . |
| 16 | Rune was waiting for her in the foyer as she stepped out of the lift . |
| 17 | No doubt he was waiting for her in the foyer , champing at her non-appearance . |
| 18 | Mike was waiting for her in the lobby when she came down , and she was pleased to see that he too had dressed as informally as possible in deference to the humidity . |
| 19 | He was waiting for her in the hall . |
| 20 | Tracey was waiting for her in the pub . |
| 21 | If it had been Jamie Baird who was waiting for her in the drawing-room , would she have been so angry ? |
| 22 | JENNY was waiting for her in the lounge of the Black Lion occupying herself with an evening newspaper . |
| 23 | Guido was waiting for her in the hallway , his face as black as thunder . |
| 24 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 25 | The ice crown was waiting for him in the city , protected only by the ghosts . |
| 26 | She was waiting for him in the apartment . |
| 27 | Curtis , the local CID sergeant , was waiting for him in the police station . |
| 28 | Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk . |
| 29 | Now we may never know what secrets it was towing with it in the clouds . |
| 30 | A dying man asked for a chair to be placed by his bedside , because he sensed that Jesus Christ was sitting beside him in the darkness throughout the night . |