Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seconds later , when the Plymouth came screaming around the bend , Manville was safely observing it from the inside of a record store window . |
| 2 | I do n't know if this was especially unusual , or maybe even against King 's Regulations ( so many things were ) , but Flight Officer Gregory was forever pursuing him with offers of theatre tickets and weekends in London . |
| 3 | And Bill Holroyd was already showing himself to be pretty gullible , so it 's in character . |
| 4 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 5 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 6 | And , like the romantic fool I was , I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation . |
| 7 | Soon lobbing along behind the leaders , Llewellyn was always finding plenty of room for Party Politics and by the second Canal Turn , when Romany King moved up to join Hotplate , the race had begun to take it 's final shape . |
| 8 | And Shaunagh was there to help him through one of the most embarrassing moments of his life . |
| 9 | Before very long , Wilson was constantly consulting me on a number of matters and even seeking my opinion on political issues — which he wisely always rejected . |
| 10 | Mr Lamont was clearly confusing it with the Black-Bellied Sandgrouse ( Pterocles orientalis ) , whose natural habitat is North Africa , said the RSPB yesterday . |
| 11 | Britain was soon devoting something like half its national product to the war , a massive shift of resources , unthinkable in peacetime . |
| 12 | Because he had prayed with a pure heart throughout the night , a tendril from the God-Emperor was now nudging him like a guardian spirit . |
| 13 | Peter was somehow taking her into his arms , hissing something in Marc 's face , but she could n't tell what . |
| 14 | ‘ Charles was just asking me about Marius . ’ |
| 15 | But Keith was already pushing her into the living-room , bubbling with what he had to say . |
| 16 | One male Titford of the new generation — William Charles — had left the town already ; his brother Benjamin was soon to follow him to London ; Elizabeth was now a married woman , with two as yet unmarried sisters , Mary and Sarah . |
| 17 | Quietly sipping champagne in a corner of the large marquee , Laura was just chiding herself for having over-reacted in such a feeble , juvenile way towards a man who could n't possibly be interested in her , when she looked up — and suddenly found Ross standing in front of her ! |
| 18 | Anne tried to get up , pulling on a coat , but Nina was still pinning her to the floor . |
| 19 | When she saw him again , on the Wednesday , Maria was half expecting it in view of certain events the previous evening , and Luke obviously knew it . |
| 20 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 21 | John was just running it for me now so I 'll pick it up on the way home tonight . |
| 22 | Yet in 1340 Philip VI was already showing himself to be master of the tactic which the French were to employ in the years to come , that of avoiding direct contact with the enemy . |
| 23 | One interesting reaction was that in stating , for example , that science should be taught to all pupils in some form or other in the last two years of schooling for 10–20 per cent of the time ( in addition to a broad course up to age 13 years ) , the DES was implicitly committing itself to increased resources , in terms of teachers and facilities . |