Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were leading him the wrong way . |
| 2 | Here the Bey of Tunis was building himself a superb mausoleum . |
| 3 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 4 | But like er , she took it sch to school and Scott was giving us a lift to school so did n't have to walk and she 's in the car and she 's going if this gets if this gets all smashed up Scott I hope you realise I 'm blaming you ! |
| 5 | Pat was showing him The True Path in stylish fashion . |
| 6 | When he straightened up , Pion was giving him a puzzled look . |
| 7 | Workhouse building , despite the permitting of parishes to combine for the purpose in 1723 , was until 1750 largely an urban phenomenon , for in the countryside out-relief was proving itself a more flexible and still not frighteningly expensive option . |
| 8 | I can not quite remember the title of the Ballet , but Miss Margot Fonteyn was on her way up , we were quite sure , and that redhead Moira Shearer was running her a good second . |
| 9 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 10 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 11 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 12 | That place was costing me a fortune . |
| 13 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 14 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |
| 15 | She told them about her house and that the managers were calling her a thief . |
| 16 | Anyway , by the time Maureen went on her annual holiday , Biggles was feeding himself a bit and coming on well , so I took over . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues . |
| 18 | came across dry ginger one of my school girlfriends was giving me a recipe , which , for which one er fo for erm ginger beer |
| 19 | Willy-nilly , he was now the star of The Hooded Owl , and the rest of the cast were giving him a taste of the treatment afforded to stars . |
| 20 | After Big Bang , private clients discovered that stockbrokers were offering them an increasingly impersonal service . |
| 21 | According to estimates from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and local Red Cross committees , some 2,500,000 people from the former Yugoslavia were displaced by the end of July , and some 10,000 people from Bosnia were joining them every day . |
| 22 | I could not get over the fact that people were giving me the responsibility of telling them how to get me up , and that I could choose what time I went to bed ! |
| 23 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 24 | The uniforms were giving her the once-over . |
| 25 | So the retching was worrying me a bit . |
| 26 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 27 | Her father was reading her the story , a long time ago . |
| 28 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 29 | But , but , but I think that the Reverend David Brian was saying something a little bit erm more direct and more overarching than dealing only with those people that you 're talking about , were n't you , David ? |
| 30 | Belpan was outside the EC 's sphere of influence so the Colonel was doing someone a favour . |