Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Suddenly Rokeya was standing in front of her , looking down at her . |
| 4 | He did so very quickly , in about five minutes , while North was standing in front of his desk . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He said that he had presumed that Khumalo was speaking on behalf of Buthelezi , but realized that he was incorrect . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Suddenly , the door opened and Roy was standing in front of her . |
| 9 | Ballater was crouching in front of the fire warming his hands when Lowell returned . |
| 10 | Springsteen was sitting on top of the stereo stack , looking out of the window into the darkening sky . |
| 11 | However , well-informed sources ruled out both British Aerospace and STC as buyers , saying they believed Hoare Govett was acting on behalf of normal investment clients or Middle Eastern investors with an interest in Ferranti 's future . |
| 12 | Leon Kennedy was standing in front of the fire where she had chosen to stand all that time ago at the beginning of the evening . |
| 13 | Lee was standing in front of the cooker . |
| 14 | Then Garvey was standing in front of his angel , beaming into his face and murmuring , without moving his lips , ‘ Do n't answer . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Alan Blumlein of EMI in Britain was working in ignorance of developments in America ; his concept was to record two optical channels on cine film . |
| 16 | Peacock 's Crochet Castle was surrounded by gravel workings ; Disraeli 's Bentham was decaying behind Ministry of Defence barbed wire ; and the lawns of Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park were engulfed by the classrooms of a girls ' school . |
| 17 | Iris was staring in front of her with a set expression , making no response . |
| 18 | Steve was sitting in front of the television set watching a pop show . |
| 19 | The Trunchbull was standing in front of the class , legs apart , hands on hips , scowling at Miss Honey who stood silent to one side . |
| 20 | As we trooped out of the hall , the old lady in the wheelchair was still trying to get up , and Clara Beeding was kneeling in front of her . |
| 21 | Yesterday an inquest was told Mr Coulson was suffering from cancer of the lung and heart disease . |
| 22 | Twenty-one-year-old Mark was running in aid of Tusk Force — a charity to protect the future of the elephant — and raised between £700 and £800 . |
| 23 | When she opened her eyes again Philippa was kneeling in front of her looking up at her . |
| 24 | Northwich was buzzing with news of the fire yesterday and many were speculating as to whether ICI would bother reopening the plant , which is scheduled to close this year . |
| 25 | Among its first acts in office , the new government , committed to sweeping economic reforms aimed at the introduction of a market-based economy , announced on Dec. 11 , 1989 , that Czechoslovakia was applying for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank . |
| 26 | Angela Foley was standing in front of the desk , looking at him strangely , he thought . |
| 27 | But being a nationalised company the chairman 's salary was fixed and the £80,000 annual remuneration Pearce was receiving as chairman of Esso was cut in half overnight . |
| 28 | Pearce was standing in front of him , talking angrily and pointing to those doors as two other men began to push clumsily inside , admitting a gale of icy air that even Cardiff could feel from his position . |
| 29 | By June 1979 Brzezinski was arguing in favour of American military preponderance in the Indian Ocean Persian Gulf region . |