Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs .
2 I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper .
3 Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention .
4 But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride .
5 And I said , If somebody 's serving somebody in the shop and perhaps they you know two of three of them perhaps together , I said , but do n't talk in the shop I said , go through to the back if you want to chat .
6 Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went
7 Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ .
8 No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors .
9 Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives . ’
10 But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road .
11 From the other side of the room , from the shadows of the wood-store where they had entered , something was dragging itself across the floor towards them …
12 We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’
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