Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 2 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 3 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 4 | Araminta was appraising her in a considering way . |
| 5 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 8 | The answer was staring me in the face . |
| 9 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 10 | Niall Grant was the most disturbingly sexually arousing man she had ever met , and his nearness was affecting her in a way she had n't dreamed possible . |