Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | James was kneeling on the floor in front of one of the lacquer cabinets , which he had opened . |
| 2 | Embarrassed both by her comments and by the expression on her face , Seb squeezed the hand she was resting on the cart in front of her . |
| 3 | Let me just close with some words from Matthew chapter nine in verse ten , he said that it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house behold many tax gatherers and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and his disciples , and when the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples , why is your teacher eating with the tax gatherers and sinners ? |
| 4 | As a result , he once stopped his car as I was walking up the track in Monaco , opened his door and said , ‘ Hop in . ’ |
| 5 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 6 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 7 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 8 | A man named Maisel , a retoucher of photographs , was living in the studio in 1915 and the Jewish artists who knew Modigliani 's work gathered to welcome him . |
| 9 | Mr. Thorpe had available to him a quicker way to secure the referral that he was seeking to the unit in Birmingham , so the process was not finally concluded in north Devon . |
| 10 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 11 | : I was serving with the Army in Malaya . |
| 12 | ‘ He stated it had all started a very long time ago when he was serving in the army in India and he admitted to still being sexually frustrated . ’ |
| 13 | On 11 April 1986 Minnie Keenan was listening to the radio in her east Belfast home when she heard the news that her son Brian had been taken hostage in Beirut . |
| 14 | The settee he had seen from the window was against one wall and Alfred Glynn was lying on the floor in front of it , his body oddly contorted . |
| 15 | Peter was lying on the sofa in the room behind . |
| 16 | Yesterday he was testing with the team in Estoril where he said : ‘ There is nothing I would like better than to be back in Grand Prix racing . ’ |
| 17 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 18 | The worst part of the job was going on the beat in winter . |
| 19 | Yesterday Splash said : ‘ I was going to the conference in Stornoway anyhow , so no doubt I might bump into him . |
| 20 | The king was impinging on the economy in a new way . |
| 21 | Phillip was waiting outside the takeaway in Castleford , West Yorks. , when one thug shouted : ‘ Let's get this blondie ! ’ |
| 22 | An hour later , when she was paying off her taxi outside the house , the sun , as though to make amends , was breaking through the cloud in a watery way , bathing the red Victorian brick in a soft bland light . |
| 23 | He was speaking through the peep-hole in the cellar door . |
| 24 | I was speaking about the lady in the back . |
| 25 | It was complaining about the creation in July of a USSR government-sponsored cartel called Integral , incorporating enterprises in Estonia previously supervised by all-Union ministries in Moscow , which would trade only within the centrally controlled Soviet economy and thus completely outside the Estonian legislative and fiscal systems . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've got lots of favourite moments from those days but perhaps the best is the vision of Kenneth Williams singing one of the dirtiest songs I have ever heard to sunbathers on the beach at Rye — which was doubling for the desert in Carry On — Follow That Camel , ’ he recalls . |
| 27 | A strong wind was blowing across the platform in the direction of the loch , accompanied by a cold , driving rain . |
| 28 | Later , as he was crawling about the floor in his underclothes , looking under the bed for his slippers , Jannie asked , ‘ Why were you smoking , John ? ’ |
| 29 | But in at least one case it can be shown that Richard was retaining in the area in the 1470s . |
| 30 | But in at least one case it can be shown that Richard was retaining in the area in the 1470s . |