Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 2 | Not that The Dick Nixons were indulging in a new pastime . |
| 3 | grandmother and I think there was an aunt , and I said Ken were living in a three bedroomed semi , oh they wo n't mind for Christmas . |
| 4 | With four minutes remaining of an ill-tempered game , Lazio were trailing to a 47th-minute goal scored by Roma favourite Giuseppe Giannini . |
| 5 | A dishevelled Michael Stein was leaning against a faded sign scribbled on the peeling wall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When Ruth went into the house Hester was sitting on an upright chair by the table , peeling potatoes . |
| 8 | His head rested on the pillow at an unusual angle , the chin tilted abnormally high , so that , from the foot of the bed , Richard was looking into the dark pits of his nostrils . |
| 9 | Soper was displeasing to the Free Presbyterians for a number of reasons — his commitment to ecumenism , his left-wing politics — but more than anything it was his rationalism which provoked the ire of conservatives . |
| 10 | David was speaking to an Australian radio station shortly before lawyers acting for the Princess issued writs against and the gym owner . |
| 11 | She walked a little reluctantly across the hall to where David was standing beside a thin , dark man in civilian clothes . |
| 12 | Well I I actually must have read completely different to anybody else from what I 've been hearing , erm the way I looked at it , the situation that we have locally compared with what David was saying about the national erm what government are doing nationally and the situation we have here in Cambridge city . |
| 13 | The therapist did not think that the overdose had been associated with serious suicidal intent , nor that David was suffering from a psychiatric illness . |
| 14 | Larry Birns , director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs , quoting US government sources , said ‘ the United States was conspiring with a different and more senior group of conspirators ’ . |
| 15 | The ordeal began when Mr Arafat was returning from the Sudanese capital , Khartoum , to his headquarters in Tunis . |
| 16 | ‘ At the time , young Steven was working for the Inland Revenue near Strangeways Prison . |
| 17 | Two years ago Benazir Bhutto was thinking along the same lines . |
| 18 | At the time of his appointment to the viceroyalty Irwin was putting in an unremarkable stint as Minister of Agriculture . |
| 19 | Rex was rooting through the slumbering cabby 's pockets . |
| 20 | And so , at this particular moment , when Laz was finding himself somewhat up against it , Rex was indulging in a little foot fellatio and thinking instep . |
| 21 | Ellen was grinning from the other couch , but I was in no mood to humour her amusement . |
| 22 | Corbett was looking for a suitable place as the crowd began to disperse when Benstede returned , accompanied by a thin , stooping figure with watery eyes , a drinker 's red nose and a wispy beard . |
| 23 | McKibben was writing about a global crisis . |
| 24 | Cork were playing into the strong wind in the first half but made the early running with a sixth minute goal from Barry Egan . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | By Easter Eva was presiding over the annual weekend houseparty of the nurses ' fellowship . |
| 27 | Bourne was standing on a raised dais at one end of the hall under a text which read : ‘ By grace ye are saved . |
| 28 | Whereas in art and design the CNAA was negotiating with an established , parallel validating body and with institutions operating courses accepted as being of degree standard , in the creative and performing arts it was moving further into complicated and confused territory . |
| 29 | Curtis was staring at the bloodstained shirt , ‘ I suppose it has to have been a firearm , sir ? ’ |
| 30 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |