Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce was in the hammock and Mr and Mrs van Meer were sitting side-by-side on the steps . |
| 2 | The British staff at Culham were pointing out to the eminent scientists that they are paid less than their colleagues from fourteen other European countries working alongside them . |
| 3 | She and Edward were sitting together in their Dorset drawing room , in their chairs on each side of the fireplace , where they always sat . |
| 4 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 5 | Nellie was holding on to his arm as they walked out into the corridor and he felt her tense . |
| 6 | Cossins also filmed a sequence with Crawford on Wimbledon Common , shown behind the end titles , in which Frank Spencer was running away from the grounds where the course was being held , with the organizer chasing him . |
| 7 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 8 | Marie Marie was going down to her mother 's she was running as usual , she dashed up to our back door and said , is Doug around ? |
| 9 | Meredith was drinking alone in the Oyster Bar , thinking of Hilary , when a small man with sideburns and an anxious expression approached him . |
| 10 | Henry Cotton was walking in with us and he says , ‘ That 's the bravest golf shot I 've ever seen in my life . ’ |
| 11 | The young earl of Stafford was coming early into prominence , for he was one of the new knights Henry had made on the eve of his coronation . |
| 12 | Back at Club Eleusis , Jahsaxa Penumbra was tripping out like the bad queen in a fairy-tale cartoon , the only omission being the thunderclouds and lightning round her head . |
| 13 | Rebecca was looking pointedly from one of us to the other like a parody of a spectator watching a tennis rally . |
| 14 | Rebecca was sifting restlessly through some of the papers in her in tray , and he went over to her . |
| 15 | Judi was coming apart inside her waistcoat . |
| 16 | Lucy was staring intently at Virginia , her eyes glinting with interest . |
| 17 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 18 | Linton was sitting calmly in a chair near the fire , happy that –e was not being punished this time . |
| 19 | He said that the PLO was pushing hard for a role for Arafat in Monday 's ceremony and that President Clinton believed that it was up to the PLO to choose its delegation . |
| 20 | At Lewes Prison , Colin Fairfax was grinning broadly at his brother across a bare table in the visiting room , which was otherwise deserted . |
| 21 | Fairfax was looking forward to restoring it to its pristine splendour and stuffing it to the roof with Caroline antiques . |
| 22 | Mrs Wright was coming slowly along the ride towards them . |
| 23 | Mrs Wright was sitting down on the bank , the gun across her knees . |
| 24 | She slept badly , with what sleep she did get punctuated with dreams where Barney was driving away in her car , and where Cara was blaming her for letting him take it . |
| 25 | Hennessy was waiting outside by the railings . |
| 26 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 27 | Alcoholic Geoffrey Frederick Gregory was drinking up to 12 pints a day back in 1979 . |
| 28 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 29 | Edward was tucking in to his meal . |
| 30 | Philpott was sitting up in bed , his face hidden behind a copy of the New York Times . |