Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 2 | He noticed that Hari was watching him with dull eyes . |
| 3 | And so the relevance of that to what Andrea was telling us about is what ? |
| 4 | remember what Richard was using it as yesterday . |
| 5 | That was used as er , I ca n't remember what Richard was using it as yesterday |
| 6 | Rebecca was accusing her of starting the fire , and he was doing nothing to dispute the idea . |
| 7 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 8 | David was warming himself by a fire in the centre of the hut ; he was almost nude and had never worn anything other than a coarse blanket which was slightly tied round him to cover his back . |
| 9 | But I I just Pat was doing it for Bishop 's Stortford on or thereabouts because he sent me all the details about the whale walk . |
| 10 | ‘ Jack Mahoney was blackmailing somebody in this town . |
| 11 | Rune Christensen was amusing himself at her expense . |
| 12 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |
| 13 | Near the end of his life Ramsey was asked which of his books he was most glad to have written . |
| 14 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 15 | Oh , Ken was asking us about that . |
| 16 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 17 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 18 | Leith 's mutiny ebbed when she thought how ill and distraught Travis was making himself over his love , and the seed of an idea of appealing to Travis to save her job withered before it was half born . |
| 19 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 20 | Who was , when Molly was telling me about Jason , when Jason sa , I could have murdered Ryan doing that ! |
| 21 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 22 | Japanese records suggest that Kim was opposing them in May 1929 . |
| 23 | ‘ And , say , Curtis was telling me about these things , these weird things . |
| 24 | It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house . |
| 25 | In short , ‘ marriage ’ with England was showing itself to be a severely limiting factor when other courtships were envisaged . |
| 26 | On the way home in the taxi ( Nigel was indulging them for once — he could n't let Gina use her bike under the circumstances ) he took delight in telling her she had a spot on her backside . |
| 27 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 28 | Because these areas contained many people of Slovenian stock , Tito was claiming them as parts of a " Greater Yugoslavia " . |
| 29 | Sir Charles Webb-Bowen was delivering himself of a homily . |
| 30 | Gaynor Wynne was filming her with a camcorder during a champagne reception at the Imperial Hotel . |