Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He unloosed the third and fourth and was struggling with the reins of the fifth when he heard voices on the path . |
| 2 | She was tucking in the sheets at the wall side , and blowing the hair out of her eyes as she reached over . |
| 3 | A weak sun was rising off to the east over the distant buildings and its pale light was filtering through the branches of the trees about him . |
| 4 | He was being sick right and he was hanging over the banisters like this these flats and I could n't stop laughing . |
| 5 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 6 | And , as he smiled , he was gazing into the eyes of an extraordinarily beautiful dark-haired girl . |
| 7 | The sound of the girl singer by the pool wafted up in this natural amphitheatre , and a nightingale was trilling in the branches of a casuarina in the garden . |
| 8 | And Helmut liked to feel he was stepping in the footprints of celebrated men . |
| 9 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 10 | A man was walking past the girls across the street , looking at and talking to them in turn ; then he went off with one of them . |
| 11 | The teenager was walking through the grounds of Hospital yesterday evening , when a man pulled her to the ground and threatened her . |
| 12 | oh my god it 's the incredible hulk oh and you know Jayne with the skirt up here , well in English study she was walking up the steps like this |
| 13 | oh my god it 's the incredible hulk oh and you know Jayne with the skirt up here , well in English study she was walking up the steps like this |
| 14 | The night I arrived I was walking around the streets on my own looking for work . |
| 15 | The disconsolate — yet irritatingly smug — Geoffrey was walking in the grounds of Pym Hall with his generous-mouthed wife , Laura … |
| 16 | When he used to chase his tail and I remember I was walking I was walking round the shops with him and there 's this big alsatian and Roly was giving it cos you know how scared he was of dogs it was barking at him ! |
| 17 | He levelled it , straight and calm , at the shape that was thrashing on the tiles of the reception floor . |
| 18 | The mist was shearing from the hillsides like a fleece , the air lightening and warming . |
| 19 | Greeted by Dolores with a tray of champagne , Stephanie Marsa was weaving through the crowds on slender black high heels , and brushed close by where Caroline stood , so close that she left a waft of heady , exotic perfume in the air , making a single-minded bee-line for Roman . |
| 20 | By 1911 , Umberto Boccioni who was dead by 1916 , was grappling with the emotions of modern life ; the impact and anxieties of living in the stroboscopic uncertainties of a mechanised urban environment . |
| 21 | However , Lewis and Maund ( 1979 ) did find that social segregation was occurring in the areas with the largest influx of newcomers and the largest populations . |
| 22 | The least I would expect would be an immediate invitation from the Prime Minister , come and see me , because if it was happening on the streets of any city in Britain and the MP stood up and said what I 've said I think he would be in Downing Street within the night . |
| 23 | It was full of knights , one of whom was dying in the arms of a fair maiden . |
| 24 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 25 | By 1941 L. F. Easterbrook , the agricultural expert and journalist , associated with Lloyd George 's plan for the land , was urging through the pages of Picture Post the need for a ‘ Land Commission ’ which would operate a national strategy to apportion land for agriculture , forestry , building , roads , allotments , factories , playing fields and national parks , while others supported the demand for public access to the countryside and the creation of specially designated areas as ‘ lungs ’ for the urban areas . |
| 26 | One moment he was shouting at the boys in the dorm to keep quiet , the next thing he was in the bathroom retching , then out on the landing , heaving and crying out . |
| 27 | One of them was shouting at the men behind the counter now ; a stream of threats and curses in Kuo Yu — Mandarin — while the two behind him looked about them threateningly . |
| 28 | There were times when he spoke as though he was living in the days of his ancestor , Richard ; regarding himself as a feudal overlord with the power of life and death over his vassals . |
| 29 | But because the scandal broke at the time when one of the most popular pastimes in Yugoslavia was hunting for the scalps of former politicians , the moment the British press reported the involvement of Yugoslav diplomats , Tito 's family and the Yugoslav National Army , the silver became interesting . |
| 30 | This Ethiopian , he had come to Jerusalem , he was a , he was a a , go , a Godly man , he was seeking after the things of God , and he had come to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to worship God , and he was returning home , and he had got hold of the scroll that had Isaiah fifty three in it , and he was reading it , and Philip goes up to the man in the chariot , he said , do you understand what you 're reading ? |