Example sentences of "who was [v-ing] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Scott Quinnell , 19 , was the game 's outstanding forward , and a 50-yard run down the touchline with the ball in one hand and handing off tacklers with the other would have impressed Alan Davies , the Wales coach , who was watching from the stands .
2 That man could well be former Southampton boss Chris Nicholl , who was watching from the stands .
3 How was I to know who was marching up the stairs and in here ?
4 er no some other bod who was dealing with the accounts at in Enfield .
5 At Cornforth Lane School , Coxhoe , the children sang the 23rd psalm when the news was broken , says H. Ellerby , who was working in the kitchens at the school .
6 No , our Whelan is Noel Whelan , a lad who was playing for the youngsters just last season .
7 General Pal Maletar of the freedom fighters , who was negotiating with the Russians under a safe-conduct pass , was arrested and shot .
8 When someone who was putting on the records said : ‘ Fourth movement , called The Storm , ’ I wondered how the music would compare with the storm outside .
9 But not as loopy as the Lacuna woman , of course , who was standing in the shadows and favouring everyone in turn with her intense glare .
10 Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens .
11 He saw that two men were now holding me , pushing me down and punching me and he recognized the man who was walking up the stairs .
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