Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow was smothering everything in whiteness , deadening all sound . |
| 2 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 3 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago the same testy attitude was asserting itself in Parliament , prompting one MP to urge Mr Butler not to give in to ‘ the wild men of the Conservative Party ’ . |
| 5 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 6 | Araminta was appraising her in a considering way . |
| 7 | Education was taking one in ten of the output of students and employed 18 per cent of those with jobs . |
| 8 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 9 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 10 | Survivals include the Cambrian Coast , radio signalled in 1988 , where Barmouth viaduct was after all repaired , the Central Wales where a decision was taken to rebuild the bridge which collapsed while a train was crossing it in high flood , and the Settle & Carlisle where the government perhaps surprisingly refused closure . |
| 11 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 12 | Half the saints in Paradise were facing them in rows from the rounded west wall and along the south wall stretched a hieratic representation of the life of St. Nicholas . |
| 13 | The shameful thing was doing it in front of strangers , and being seen by your friends in the process . |
| 14 | The answer was staring me in the face . |
| 15 | People are encouraged to look at the wills but constant handling was putting them in jeopardy . |
| 16 | Harry denied in his letters that this fact was influencing him in any way . |
| 17 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 18 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 19 | Niall Grant was the most disturbingly sexually arousing man she had ever met , and his nearness was affecting her in a way she had n't dreamed possible . |
| 20 | The ragged hole appeared in the beard again ; it occurred to me that the shrink was baiting me in some way , teasing me . |
| 21 | They felt very threatened , although ‘ opening the door of my house ’ had been one of the actions tried out when the class was directing me in how to be a witch . |
| 22 | Interestingly enough Larry Witty , the General Secretary of the Labour Party , said at last year 's Labour Party Conference that if it had not been for the steadily , steady influence of the unions during the eighties , when the Party was tearing itself in two , we would not have a Labour Party today . |