Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " 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 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 5 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 9 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 10 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 13 | But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft . |
| 14 | Doug was throwing himself into the part with relish . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But by then , Nicolo was hurrying her down the steps , out of the building , and into a black Mercedes limousine . |
| 19 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 20 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 21 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 22 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |
| 23 | And I noticed Otley was admiring himself in the mirror a lot these days , the predatory gleam back in his hazel eyes , sometimes gold sometimes green , according to where the light was coming from . |
| 24 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 25 | Samuel Pipkin was tensing himself for the coming life and death struggle this evening , when the vital decision would be made by the Prince of Wales , and Mr Thackeray would be avenged . |
| 26 | Yet many party supporters were outraged by this betrayal of the Whig tradition , and the very fact that the issue of liberty of conscience could now be given a low priority in the party agenda is perhaps indicative of the beginnings of the process whereby Whiggery was to divorce itself from the cause of Dissent . |
| 27 | Felicity was wearing nothing but the great swirl of hair and the flower in it . |
| 28 | Eachuinn Odhar was awaiting them among the crowd in the hall . |
| 29 | By May 1987 McFarlane was describing them to the Baltimore Sun as ‘ incompetent Coca-Cola bottlers and clerks ’ . |
| 30 | Fabia got out , then found that before she could say a word , Ven was escorting her inside the hotel and waiting with her while she collected her room key . |