Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man at the sharp end of the drive to put information technology to work in Britain , Cracknell was commenting on plans by a big American semiconductor firm to expand its operations in the town . |
| 2 | She was ready now to admit that her mother was right , Hari was falling in love with Craig . |
| 3 | Ceauşescu was hunting in Nigeria at the time and insisted on playing down the impact of the earthquake even before he returned . |
| 4 | Both generals had commanded units in Kurdish areas in south-east Turkey , and there was speculation that Dev Sol was working in co-operation with the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 5 | Grandson Richard was looking at Masklin down the length of his nose . |
| 6 | One day in 1964 , while Richard was playing in Hamlet on Broadway , he and I were interviewed jointly in a private corner of an Eighth Avenue bar and restaurant much frequented by theatre people . |
| 7 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 8 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 9 | At the foot of the stairs , David was listening with interest to what her father was saying , a smile on his lips . |
| 10 | Immediately beside him Kegan was fussing with sheets of paper , arranging and rearranging them into neat aligned squares . |
| 11 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 12 | Bobby was lying in bed in his room at the Gebler 's house in the Bronte district of Sydney . |
| 13 | In concrete terms , de Valera was acting on behalf of the established economic interests of rural Ireland , in particular the small landowners and small businessmen . |
| 14 | Later that year , when Beltrami was acting for McGuinness in another matter , McGuinness admitted his involvement at Ayr — information that Mr Beltrami was unable to divulge because of the confidentiality of the client-solicitor relationship . |
| 15 | In the mid-1960s Washington was pressing for decisions on a number of defence issues affecting Nato . |
| 16 | BURLY rugby international Moss Keane was recovering in hospital in Dublin today from a vicious mugging attack . |
| 17 | And er my first job I had at Lyness was working for William on the tanks outside , tarmacadam under the tanks . |
| 18 | Suddenly Rokeya was standing in front of her , looking down at her . |
| 19 | He did so very quickly , in about five minutes , while North was standing in front of his desk . |
| 20 | The majority feeling in the CDP was moving towards support for development within the CNAA . |
| 21 | As to the presumption , Mr. Philipson , while prepared to acknowledge that it would apply to the reasonableness test , submitted that it did not apply when considering whether the Bank of England was acting in performance of its functions . |
| 22 | Every weekend , Anthony was bursting with news for him . |
| 23 | He said that he had presumed that Khumalo was speaking on behalf of Buthelezi , but realized that he was incorrect . |
| 24 | Then , Fiat was jockeying with Volkswagen for the top spot among Europe 's car makers . |
| 25 | At the time of the alleged offence , Maradona was playing in Italy with Napoli . |
| 26 | Within a year , in the summer of 1987 , Brannen was competing for Britain in the European Junior Championships . |
| 27 | Gary Player insisted that Ballesteros was suffering from paralysis by analysis , that he was no longer sure of his fundamentals . |
| 28 | At the end of the lesson , Katharine was beaming from ear to ear . |
| 29 | I went to see The Wild One many many years ago when I was thinking about becoming an actor and thinking maybe it was a bit of a poofy thing to do , and Marlon Brando was standing in front of this juke box and he had ‘ New York Rebels ’ on the back of his leather jacket and this girl came up and said , ‘ What are you rebelling against , Johnny ? ’ and he says ‘ What have you got ? ’ and I thought , ‘ Yeah , that 's my man , I 'll do that . ’ |
| 30 | Suddenly , the door opened and Roy was standing in front of her . |