Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 2 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 3 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 4 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 7 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 10 | But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft . |
| 11 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But by then , Nicolo was hurrying her down the steps , out of the building , and into a black Mercedes limousine . |
| 14 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Eachuinn Odhar was awaiting them among the crowd in the hall . |
| 17 | By May 1987 McFarlane was describing them to the Baltimore Sun as ‘ incompetent Coca-Cola bottlers and clerks ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One day Judge Raymond Dean was reminding us of the perils of ignoring men 's bestial nature-— ‘ Men ca n't turn their emotions on and off like a tap as some women can ’ ; the next , Prince Edward was vehemently denying his alleged homosexuality by expressing outrage that such an insult should be levelled at him ; meanwhile , on TV the Audi driver screeched to a halt at the hospital where — with toddler in arms — he managed narrowly to miss his second child 's birth , and Good Housekeeping boasted a curious advert showing New Man ( Audi safely in the garage ? ) in boxer shorts , cradling new baby , sitting on a German washing machine . |
| 20 | Because now Cardiff was hauling them through the staircase door and back on to the first-floor landing . |
| 21 | He was selling Gary Druer from Travel Enterprise rooms at rock-bottom rates , and Gary was retailing them to the client for top whack , trading on our reputation . |
| 22 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 23 | On the speakers , Kim Carnes was feeling it in the air and praising the Universal Song . |
| 24 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 25 | Their eyes met , sheer delight in each other in both pairs , and then Luke was kissing her on the mouth with so much loving tenderness that she could n't speak for quite a while . |
| 26 | The monetarist line is the populist line and to prove it , Sir Rhodes Boyson was peddling it around the Winter Gardens yesterday . |