Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 2 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 3 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 4 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 5 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 6 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 7 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 8 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |
| 9 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 10 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 11 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |
| 12 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 13 | The registrar was regarding me over the top of his spectacles and trying not to look at his watch . |
| 14 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 15 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 16 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 17 | Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead . |
| 18 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most obvious illustration of the extent to which trade was forcing itself upon the often unwilling attention of traditional diplomacy was the creation of a new type of diplomat most clearly typified by the commercial attaché . |
| 20 | Billie was fanning herself with the blanket to cool the sweat that was running down her body . |
| 21 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't you leave us alone now ? ’ he pleaded and Wexford felt impotently that once again the man was enclosing himself within the unimpregnable defence of grief . |
| 23 | As I prowled about outside the garden wall , it came on me with a start that a young , man was regarding me over the barrel of a pistol . |
| 24 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
| 25 | The young man was asking her about the room , about his chances of getting it , she suddenly heard . |
| 26 | He guessed rightly that little Didier Bluot was leading me into the cemetery and would direct me to Montaine 's grave . |
| 27 | And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin … |
| 28 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 29 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 30 | The answer was staring me in the face . |