Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a possibility , therefore , that Ealhfrith lost his life in a rebellion against his father while Wilfrid was receiving consecration in Gaul . |
| 2 | There were complaints from Lazenby that Diana Rigg was eating garlic before their big love scene . |
| 3 | I 'll find time this morning , ’ Lucy promised , sensing that Jean was seeking approval of the manner in which she kept the chalets . |
| 4 | As it happened Paddington was having trouble about what to buy the Brown family for Christmas and he wished he 'd thought of it himself . |
| 5 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 6 | This would help to protect the dollar at a time when the United States was experiencing balance of payments problems . |
| 7 | The charge that the USA was abusing , rather than simply using , its position , only had weight to the extent that the United States was putting pressure on central banks abroad not to convert more of their dollars into gold . |
| 8 | Saturday was polling day in the urban centres . |
| 9 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |
| 10 | There was a scene in which Ken was playing chess with Andrew Ray . |
| 11 | Wherever you looked at the French giant , Renault was making progress in 1992 where other manufacturers were struggling to stand still . |
| 12 | Here in a land where you expect Lapp to fight Norwegian for the privilege of staying Lappish , Lapp was fighting Lapp for the privilege of being Norwegian rather than Swedish . |
| 13 | Not only had she lost control of her daughter 's behaviour but Kim was rubbing salt into the wound by insisting on this game . |
| 14 | Ten plutonium production reactors were built and operated and the irradiated fuel reprocessed ; various types of thermal reactor were investigated , as well as fast reactors and fusion reactors ; and from the mid-1950s AEA was selling electricity to the grid . |
| 15 | Marc Jeffrey was studying Philosophy at University . |
| 16 | Rain was falling in London , where Sir David Attenborough was launching Water for Wildlife , a two-year campaign by the society . |
| 17 | Russia contended that Ukraine was exporting inflation to Russia when Ukrainian enterprises purchased Russian goods with credits issued by Ukraine , for although Russia had the monopoly on printing money , all former Soviet republics could issue credits to their industries . |
| 18 | Thomas Cole was giving evidence in the case against the two youths accused of murdering the Edinburgh student in February this year . |
| 19 | By mid-1991 Denmark was nearing agreement with Sweden on a long-standing plan to bridge the Öresund straits which divided the two countries [ see p. 38402 ] . |
| 20 | ( Maud was taking care of Mildred 's tabby . ) |
| 21 | Everyone knew Gary Lineker was saying farewell to international football and a new dawn was beckoning . |
| 22 | Simon was riding pillion on a motorcycle when it hit a car head-on at the Three Horse Shoes crossroads at Ashton Keynes in September 1986 . |
| 23 | Brenda was teaching PT in a secondary school . |
| 24 | In 1964 , while Finch was filming Girl With Green Eyes in Dublin , the two Peters found themselves being refused drinks in a pub at Bray because it was after hours . |
| 25 | Less than ten minutes later , Ellwood was driving west on the elevated section , carving a path through the laggards and deadheads . |
| 26 | One evening a few weeks later , Matilda was having tea with Miss Honey in the kitchen of The Red House after school as they always did , when Matilda said suddenly , ‘ Something strange has happened to me , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 27 | This is not the sort of complaint one would expect after years in which Downing Street was running riot by appointing one maverick after another . |
| 28 | Ken Bradshaw was holding court among a handful of Waimea veterans . |
| 29 | The story of Swanage begins when the Isle of Purbeck was taking shape during the Ice Age . |
| 30 | When she went downstairs Penry was feeding wood into the stove in the living-room . |