Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Powley ( 53 ) successfully defended his title , although William Speake ( 66 ) was catching him late in the race . |
| 2 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 3 | A few weeks after their visit to the Peristrephic Panorama , her father was rowing her slowly across the serpentine lake on the neighbouring estate of Lord F- . |
| 4 | ‘ As he was knocking me all around the ring , ’ said Holyfield , ‘ I thought he 'll miss soon and maybe I 'll get the chance to knock him out . ’ |
| 5 | All she succeeded in doing was knocking it farther over the slithering groundsheet . |
| 6 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 7 | Melissa was beginning to wish the conversation had never started ; the last thing she wanted was to become embroiled in a dispute between two women she hardly knew , but Rose was looking her squarely in the eye as if demanding a response to her outburst . |
| 8 | Joe , in fact , was looking her straight in the eye . |
| 9 | As he was speaking , he was pushing her relentlessly towards the bottom of the stairs . |
| 10 | In a flash he was pushing her away from the path they were making and into the cover of the undergrowth . |
| 11 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 12 | ‘ Pumlumon was directing it straight at the giants , ’ said Caspar . |
| 13 | She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city . |
| 14 | The elephants were n't swimming in the pond , they were floating on their backs , and one of them was balancing me gently on the flat tops of its upturned feet . |
| 15 | Without speaking or smiling , he was holding me tightly round the waist , as if he would never let go . |
| 16 | I was holding it lightly against the glass of the door at an angle where the steel-jacketed slugs would plough straight into the fat of his abdomen . |
| 17 | Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road . |
| 18 | ‘ But I thought the whole idea was to keep it away from the public ? |
| 19 | She said : ‘ I was asking you then about the changes — the developments , as you called them — in Durance 's work . |
| 20 | The prey was distancing itself fast from the hunters ; the scent , as Myeloski knew , was still cold and getting colder . |
| 21 | They ran away , although this was taking them further into the old town when they had hoped to escape from it . |
| 22 | KENNETH Branagh brings a lot of folk out in hives and I was scratching myself furiously at the thought of Ken , Em , Stephen , Tony , Hugh and Imelda — plus Em 's distinguished mum Phyllida Law as the faithful retainer — all holed up , chummy as you please , in a country house over the Yuletide hols , quaffing bubbly and beating their breasts . |
| 23 | The knitting was in her lap and she was regarding me steadily over the spectacles . |
| 24 | yeah and erm she was snogging someone else at the time I think |
| 25 | Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks . |
| 26 | Fortunately , my persistent ‘ need to know ’ was to get me there in the end . |
| 27 | Sally was throwing herself all over the place and seemed to be enjoying it . |
| 28 | Jenny finished her second pint with a swallow that reminded Pascoe , who was watching her surreptitiously through the bar mirror , of Jacko Roberts . |
| 29 | Oak Marketing realised the solution to selling Brewking was to take it direct to the people and explain its process face to face . |
| 30 | But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area . |