Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 2 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 3 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 4 | David was warming himself by a fire in the centre of the hut ; he was almost nude and had never worn anything other than a coarse blanket which was slightly tied round him to cover his back . |
| 5 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 6 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 7 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 8 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 9 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 10 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 11 | Sir Charles Webb-Bowen was delivering himself of a homily . |
| 12 | Gaynor Wynne was filming her with a camcorder during a champagne reception at the Imperial Hotel . |
| 13 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 14 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 15 | Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy . |
| 16 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 17 | But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft . |
| 18 | Erika was not too sure about the girl in Pankow , half suspecting that Fräulein Silber was using her as a means of putting pressure on herself . |
| 19 | Doug was throwing himself into the part with relish . |
| 20 | After Imran Khan was ruled our of the tour because of his shoulder injury , Miandad was the obvious choice , and a popular one too from the players ' and selectors ' points of view . |
| 21 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 22 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 23 | At that same time in New Zealand , Billy Keith and his sister Roberta were playing war games in the back paddock and nine-year-old Billy was shooting her with a walking stick , but seven-year-old Berta would not lie down . |
| 24 | But by then , Nicolo was hurrying her down the steps , out of the building , and into a black Mercedes limousine . |
| 25 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 26 | Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew . |
| 27 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 28 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 29 | Félix was regarding her with a look of amused tenderness . |
| 30 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |