Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 2 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 3 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 4 | Yes Alan was mentioning in the first half poor strike rate , just four goals in over two hundred and fifty appearances in his time at Leeds United . |
| 5 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 6 | Mrs Fletcher was bending over the last of a bed of weeds , hoping finally to rid herself of them before her husband returned from the potato harvesting . |
| 7 | The allegations broke on Tuesday as Jackson was preparing for the first of two concerts in Bangkok , the first stop in the Asian swing of his Dangerous world tour . |
| 8 | McKenzie was fighting for the first time since losing his IBF title to Ulster 's Dave McAuley . |
| 9 | Spooked was running in the second race . |
| 10 | The Dictionary had reached its sixth edition and Miller was working on the seventh , revising it to incorporate the Linnaean system of classification . |
| 11 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 12 | When a number of us here did a study of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election , where Tony Benn was standing for the first time , and asked constituents themselves what they felt about the broadcast coverage , they repeatedly used the word ‘ bias ’ to describe it . |
| 13 | I think Steve was going to a first aider or something , and there was quite a few different people . |
| 14 | Sunderland were playing against a fourth team ( whose tenure in the First Division was not in doubt ) . |
| 15 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 16 | Miriam was wondering as the first fat drops of rain splashed on the verandah . |
| 17 | It 's a lot of money Well this is that Ian was making in the first place is n't it , product actually |
| 18 | Both John Lehmann 's books and Ealing Studios ' film posters point up the fact that Minton was working in the last great era of illustration , before graphic means were ousted by photographic . |
| 19 | Kelly was talking for the first time since Brentford striker Blissett was acquitted of assaulting Torquay defender John Uzzell last week . |
| 20 | Michelle , Valerie and June were jumping for the first time , but Kay had two charity parachute jumps under her belt already . |