Example sentences of "[conj] was [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced up with dread and peered into the sea of faces that was watching her with curiosity . |
| 2 | Those first six dancers had come to celebrate the newly awakened school of English classical dance that was establishing itself with the coming of peace . |
| 3 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 4 | He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck . |
| 5 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 6 | He did n't turn his head to identify the car that was trailing it in case he was recognized . |
| 7 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |
| 8 | The next landing stage , this one at a tree-covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian-manned boat that was carrying him to prison . |
| 9 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 10 | The worst of it was that his headaches made him so angry ; it was a symptom of the poison that was killing him by degrees . |
| 11 | It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles . |
| 12 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 13 | Steve looked across at Ruth who had gone deathly pale and was watching him with her mouth gaping open . |
| 14 | Luke had stood up too now and was watching her with glittering eyes , either unaware of or unperturbed by the disarray of his own garments . |
| 15 | Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness , and now she could see that he had folded his arms over the enticing broadness of his chest and was watching her with a challenging glitter in his eyes . |
| 16 | She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel . |
| 17 | The meeting at the Presbytery after Benediction had dragged on far too long , but he had caught his bus , and was congratulating himself on being out of the rain , when the conductor had bawled |
| 18 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |
| 19 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 20 | I 'd got an assortment of sarnies and some cans of Diet Coke and bottles of Perrier at a café behind Liverpool Street and was allowing plenty of time for the traffic to get back into the City . |
| 21 | It was all she was capable of saying for quite some time , for he had captured her lips again and was kissing her with a deeper intensity . |
| 22 | Bigwig had raised his head and was supporting himself on his fore-paws alone . |
| 23 | General Francis had risen from his chair by the examination couch and was supporting himself with his sticks . |
| 24 | At luncheon , Bradbury 's Alsatian dog was found to have retrieved a boot of a German airman and was chewing it under the table . |
| 25 | Then , with a nod in the direction of the railwaymen — ‘ Thanks for your assistance , and for holding up the train' — he had grabbed Shiona unceremoniously by the wrist and was dragging her towards the door . |
| 26 | Looking round , he saw that the young accomplice had retrieved the knife and was pointing it at him like a gun , stammering : ‘ You 'd better let him go , d' you hear ? ’ |
| 27 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 28 | She returned to the sitting room and struck Tam , who had knocked the bowl of biscuits from the table and was wolfing them off the carpet . |
| 29 | A uniformed policeman had stepped out from the kerb up ahead and was waving them into a side road . |
| 30 | On the steps of the stadium someone had erected a red hammer-and-sickle flag and was waving it towards the crowd and the few media people present . |