Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 2 | Stopped , just for five minutes , just to have a quick look , and now here you are , in charge of the stall of a woman you do n't know , a woman you 've never seen before in your life , and all because someone called Harry was n't to get away with something — And that man with blue eyes was watching her again . |
| 3 | The lady who ran Ruane 's office said the dispenser was giving them better coffee , better chocolate , than any time in the last nine years . |
| 4 | Eventually an equilibrium was reached , and although the Troll flesh was still there Grom was digesting it as fast as it was regrowing . |
| 5 | We passed under an arch of branches which still bore a few autumn leaves and stopped as one man , but the corporal was waving us on . |
| 6 | They found that the swamp was forcing them back and that they could no longer keep even an erratic southward course but were withdrawing towards the east , away from where they believed the Outlaws ' Camp lay . |
| 7 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 8 | The next thing she knew James Halden was carrying her out through the yard in strong , muscular arms . |
| 9 | Grandson Richard was watching him intently . |
| 10 | No , Im used to defending Fairclough , my girlfriend was slagging him off last season . |
| 11 | I bet Andy was slagging him off again . |
| 12 | ‘ Ruggiero was driving her back from Rome late one night , and somehow the car left the road and ended up against a tree . |
| 13 | But now Josie was gradually coming to realise that Lucy was treating it not as a metaphor for anything , but as the literal truth . |
| 14 | ‘ Maire was telling me how much she liked the party , Mother . |
| 15 | But 48 hours later John Boylan was digging them out again — for the singer with the daft name was Queen star Freddie Mercury before he became famous . |
| 16 | The 1992 Coca-Cola International was awarded World Cup status for the second consecutive year , and organiser Desi McHenry was offered it again for this year if he could change the date , something he was unfortunately unable to do . |
| 17 | After his father 's sudden death in 1820 , his mother and elder brother Henry moved to Italy , where Edward was to join them in about 1825 after leaving the army . |
| 18 | The war between desire and fear was consuming her utterly . |
| 19 | Creggan could see that he was afraid and that his fear was making him terribly uncertain . |
| 20 | What they were doing , the old vixen was walking them higher up into the mountain for safety . |
| 21 | ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me . |
| 22 | Johnny was stroking her back , and as she moved slightly , he slid his hands round under her arms to hold her breasts . |
| 23 | Johnny was regarding her now with a singularly unpleasant smile . |
| 24 | Now , when he had found a pot of honey , Corbett was hurrying him away . |
| 25 | Hume and Kant ( 1724–1804 ) are two towering giants of philosophy and our brief indications of their positions on morality — which must tear them from their systems as a whole — may irritate the knowledgeable , but with the space at my disposal and the particular purpose of supplying background to Part Two of this work , the only alternative was to ignore them altogether . |
| 26 | If Blake could not be exchanged the only alternative was to get him out of prison . |
| 27 | Leith broke off , suddenly appalled that he must think that his cousin Travis was helping her out with her mortgage repayments . |
| 28 | And it was getting dragged back and the engine was going like mad trying to push it along and the wind was pushing me back , and I was thinking am I going forwards or backward here ? |
| 29 | It was a full fifteen feet and the offshore wind was holding it up like a crystal tower . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’ |