Example sentences of "and [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror . |
| 2 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 3 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 4 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 5 | Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness , and now she could see that he had folded his arms over the enticing broadness of his chest and was watching her with a challenging glitter in his eyes . |
| 6 | She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel . |
| 7 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 8 | It was all she was capable of saying for quite some time , for he had captured her lips again and was kissing her with a deeper intensity . |
| 9 | At luncheon , Bradbury 's Alsatian dog was found to have retrieved a boot of a German airman and was chewing it under the table . |
| 10 | Then , with a nod in the direction of the railwaymen — ‘ Thanks for your assistance , and for holding up the train' — he had grabbed Shiona unceremoniously by the wrist and was dragging her towards the door . |
| 11 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 12 | She returned to the sitting room and struck Tam , who had knocked the bowl of biscuits from the table and was wolfing them off the carpet . |
| 13 | A uniformed policeman had stepped out from the kerb up ahead and was waving them into a side road . |
| 14 | On the steps of the stadium someone had erected a red hammer-and-sickle flag and was waving it towards the crowd and the few media people present . |
| 15 | He 'd put some more money in the meter and was warming himself by the newly-lit fire . |
| 16 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 17 | Yanto grunted some inaudible remark and was introducing her to a goggle-eyed Billy as Nigger joined them . |
| 18 | Before she was aware of what he was doing , he had lifted her up and was carrying her to the bed , where he deposited her gently , like some priceless , fragile object . |
| 19 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 20 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 21 | A man of sophistication and wide experience , he recognised her lack of both and was teasing her like a cat playing with a mouse . |
| 22 | Eisenhower , who was in the midst of his re-election campaign and was presenting himself to the American electorate as ‘ a man of peace ’ , failed to make clear to his British and French colleagues in the Atlantic Alliance the depth of his reluctance to countenance the use of force over an issue that was only important and not vital to US interests . |
| 23 | But when he looked back over his shoulder for help , Garvey too had descended his ladder and was following them into the nave . |
| 24 | He kept on , and it was worse because he 'd got hold of the helmet now and was smashing it against the toilet . |