Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Claire is sewing something in the comer . |
| 4 | Is this independent , single parent who does n't stand for any of Barry Brant 's messin' anything like the real Hilary ? |
| 5 | Felicity was wearing nothing but the great swirl of hair and the flower in it . |
| 6 | Churchill was telling everyone of the dangers in Europe but no one would listen . |
| 7 | George Orwell was warning everyone of the plight of poverty-stricken masses , whose only salvation was socialism and not the sort recommended by vegetarian cranks in sandals . |