Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil . |
| 32 | Jesus was speaking to them in a , in a concealed language , it was only for his disciples , and whilst all the people heard it , they did n't understand it , the disciples did n't understand it , and Jesus afterwards explained to his followers what he was saying . |
| 33 | Nigeria achieved independence within the Commonwealth in October 1960 , and part of what had been British-administered Cameroons was incorporated into it in 1961 . |
| 34 | Lili was talking to someone behind me . |
| 35 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 36 | When I went into town to order my new clothes , Mr Pumblechook was waiting for me at the door of his shop . |
| 37 | Cinzia Miletti was lying across it on her back , bent slightly to one side , fully clothed , her eyes closed . |
| 38 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 39 | Mike was waiting for her in the lobby when she came down , and she was pleased to see that he too had dressed as informally as possible in deference to the humidity . |
| 40 | But Wolff was looking at her with frank and breathless admiration . |
| 41 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 42 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 43 | In the end , and because Lord Hunter was presented to us as a man of independent judgement , we decided to do so , and advised Meehan to do the same . |
| 44 | And Simone was responding to him with laughter and appreciation . |
| 45 | Daak was waiting for her beyond the next upright . |
| 46 | Obviously he could n't talk to the police , and it would suit his book better if Vecchi was caught by someone outside his own organisation . |
| 47 | A dying man asked for a chair to be placed by his bedside , because he sensed that Jesus Christ was sitting beside him in the darkness throughout the night . |
| 48 | Jack was standing beside her at the time filling in notes , and she quickly jotted down the address and the scant details they were offered , and turned to him . |
| 49 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 50 | Up the slope , at the top of his semi-circular steps , Alexander Menzies was waiting for them in his best silk coat like a dandy at a ball , with a straightfaced young man standing by his side . |
| 51 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 52 | Some years later her aunt , Alveva , who had been the mistress of Rannulph Flambard [ q.v. ] before he became bishop of Durham , entertained him on his way to London , and after the feast Christina was left with him in his room , where he attempted to seduce her . |
| 53 | Tracey was waiting for her in the pub . |
| 54 | The whole of Great Britain was divided between them on a strictly geographical basis , and — subject to the general supervision of the British Railways Board and its chief officers in London — each region was completely responsible for the planning , working , and selling of all rail services in its area ( except in the seven provincial centres where PTEs had been established ) . |
| 55 | Dunan was there , flailing like a maniac , whilst Mullach was laying about himself with something like ecstasy written all over his brutal face . |
| 56 | Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one . |
| 57 | Uncle Alfred was waiting for her at the entrance to the nest when she arrived . |
| 58 | Cathy was looking past him into the studio . |
| 59 | Harley was coming into it as an early-season form horse and was therefore in the news , and now his caddie had been murdered so he was very much in the news . |
| 60 | JENNY was waiting for her in the lounge of the Black Lion occupying herself with an evening newspaper . |