Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] [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 | ‘ 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 | Sir Charles Webb-Bowen was delivering himself of a homily . |
| 11 | Gaynor Wynne was filming her with a camcorder during a champagne reception at the Imperial Hotel . |
| 12 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy . |
| 15 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 16 | But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Doug was throwing himself into the part with relish . |
| 19 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But by then , Nicolo was hurrying her down the steps , out of the building , and into a black Mercedes limousine . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 25 | Félix was regarding her with a look of amused tenderness . |
| 26 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 27 | Lydia was resigning herself to a long stretch of celibacy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |