Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 2 | As the sun was rising the next morning , Gabriel waited outside his hut until he saw the young woman riding up the hill . |
| 3 | The sun was squeezing the last moisture out of the deserted landscape . |
| 4 | Athelstan and Cranston looked at each other despondently as they left the church and reentered the priest 's house where the boy was lapping a second bowl of soup as hungrily as a starving dog . |
| 5 | This attitude was no longer conceivable to an American mind where the basic body silhouette was changing every second year . |
| 6 | When I got there , the organ was playing the 100th psalm , and , when it was done , Mr Coleridge rose and gave out his text , ‘ And he went up into the mountain to pray , HIMSELF ALONE . |
| 7 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 8 | Even if no mining had been carried out , the courts decided , the owners of the mineral rights still had a valid claim to the coal , and in seeking to deny them this , the government was violating the Fifth Amendment , which prohibits it from taking property without just compensation . |
| 9 | Three men held last weekend in the city were making a second appearance before magistrates in Middleton in Manchester today on charges involving procuring firearms . |
| 10 | In 1989 much of the world was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the start of the French Revolution . |
| 11 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |