Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 2 | The doctor was walking with them towards the private rooms . |
| 3 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 4 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 5 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 6 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 7 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 8 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 9 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 10 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 11 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 12 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 13 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 14 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 15 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 16 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 17 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 18 | Cathy was looking past him into the studio . |
| 19 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
| 20 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 21 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 22 | Before I knew it , she was lying beside me in the small white tent . |
| 23 | She saw too , in her mind 's eye , the heaving bulk of the buffalo bull struggling in the grass in its death throes , saw once more the blindly charging cow and the ragged black vultures flopping down out of the sky , and all these images crowding through her mind heightened the vague sense of turbulence that was growing inside her with the gathering storm . |
| 24 | The Bristol Mail was heading towards them at the piteously slow speed of a horse and cart , urged forward by a sleep-weary teenage post-boy . |
| 25 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 26 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 27 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
| 28 | To Sophie 's and Helen 's surprise , Ian Woodall , looking anxious and drawn , was waiting for them at the hospital . |
| 29 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 30 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |