Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 2 | I thought , well , they were trumpeting Ade for the gold medal . |
| 3 | Accordingly , without intercepting their telephone communications we obtained a fair amount of information about their attitudes on quite a wide range of topics that were concerning C.N.D. at the time . |
| 4 | They were performing Luxembourg for the remainder of the week . |
| 5 | Seb groaned , but — with the impressive upper-class confidence in his own innate superiority which always impressed Nutty enormously — waded into the melee and started to beat off the boys who were dragging Jazz down the road by his hair . |
| 6 | He explained that Louis Johnson and General Bradley were visiting Japan near the end of May and should return to Washington by 12 June . |
| 7 | It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs . |
| 8 | Broughton , the oldest boarder , was slapping Hilary on the back , then in desperation pushing him over and trying to massage his stomach . |
| 9 | Owen was pursuing Garvin about the Camel Watering Account . |
| 10 | Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time . |
| 11 | One moment she was directing Maria in the making of knead cakes , the next she was taken with a sensation of wishing to bear down , no pains preceding it , and had a struggle to get herself to bed and to have Ferdinando and the midwife sent for . |
| 12 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 13 | Nevil was leading Jo by the arm towards a white Ford Sierra . |
| 14 | Carolyn found her most difficult task was persuading Laura of the necessity for such schedules . |
| 15 | Though it is rare to find consensus among footballers and the media , few on either side had a good , or even printable , word for Toshack in Wales while he was marching Swansea to the top of the hill and down again . |
| 16 | If she had , she would have been sure to say so when she was blaming Joseph for the murder . |
| 17 | Zeinab announced that she was taking Owen to the theatre . |
| 18 | I began it upon leaving Tintern , after crossing the Wye , and concluded it just as I was entering Bristol in the evening , after a ramble of four or five days , with my sister . |
| 19 | Lawton was reading Blake by the light of a spot lamp . |
| 20 | Even while Dick was lowering Martin to the ground , he had his head turned in the direction of the dark blur standing out against the night and it was only a matter of seconds before he raised himself and his gun towards it . |
| 21 | A girl was playing Chopin in the concert room as Erika went into the lounge . |
| 22 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 23 | He was making the investitures in lieu of his mother who was touring Africa at the time . |
| 24 | I was telling Vitalis about the problem when he volunteered to do the job himself . |
| 25 | It is significant that in July 1939 , at a time when Stalin was actively negotiating the Nazi-Soviet pact with Hitler , Nizan was quoting Zhdanov to the effect that the finalising of the tripartite peace agreement was being held up solely by the delaying tactics of France and Great Britain . |
| 26 | That companion of his undergraduate years , who obviously hoped that one day she would replace Vivien , was visiting England during the school vacation . |
| 27 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |
| 28 | Ms Anderson , who has spent many years living and working in London and Washington , was visiting Torquay for the BA Conference . |
| 29 | He was visiting Vancouver on the programme 's behalf . |
| 30 | At half-time in the final match , when Britain was trailing Denmark in the lead , Sidney Lee , the non-playing captain , decided to pair Rixi and another member of the team , Fritzi Gordon . |