Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 2 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 3 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 6 | The answer was staring me in the face . |