Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , it ended just as the Giants were putting themselves into the play-off hunt with a 27–7 victory over the Green Bay Packers for their third straight win . |
| 2 | The alienation of king and archbishop gave added significance to long-standing grievances at a time when by protecting Eardwulf 's enemies the archbishop was allying himself against the king . |
| 3 | Maybe the Russians were screening something from him ; he could only presume that they were . |
| 4 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 5 | The snow was smothering everything in whiteness , deadening all sound . |
| 6 | So we put them all into bin bags and we was trying to carry these bin bags so the wind was taking them like balloons ! |
| 7 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 8 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 9 | The girl was studying her as if she was an amusing spectacle and Jenna assumed that she was . |
| 10 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 11 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 12 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 14 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 15 | The lady was holding it like that I run up , I go ooh bang and it goes . |
| 16 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 17 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
| 18 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 19 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 20 | The rain was smashing itself into a two-foot-high mist above the roadway as Maxim pulled up outside Billy Dann 's house . |
| 21 | As he reached the middle of the trough , the water was forcing itself over his shoulders . |
| 22 | She dried her eyes presently because she realized that the Magistrate was watching her from not far away . |
| 23 | The magistrate was having none of this , however , believing that it would lower the dignity of the law , although the prosecuting counsel had a better idea and asked Mr Gamage if he was equally prepared to be shot in the face . |
| 24 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 25 | But the Croma was having none of it . |
| 26 | Two young women were in the room ; one was reading a magazine , the other was stuffing herself into a tight corset of black vinyl that appeared to be a part of a stylised nun 's costume . |
| 27 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 28 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 29 | The registrar was regarding me over the top of his spectacles and trying not to look at his watch . |
| 30 | The theremin was playing itself with passion , with feeling . |