Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided that she either had friends or family nearby or was pacing the streets in desperation ! |
| 2 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 3 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 4 | Tass quoted Gen Grachev as saying the Georgian air force had painted seven Su-25s in Russian colours and was using the planes to bomb populated areas . |
| 5 | He 's got some flowers for you and was asking the porters , and I told him you worked here and I 'd get you . |
| 6 | The murder had only occurred ten minutes before , but the old man already saw himself in the role of vital witness , and was polishing the phrases in a story which he would tell many times . |
| 7 | He leapt over Mr Slipper and was climbing the shelves before anyone had the time to realise what was happening . |
| 8 | Stratford had leased them out to Thomas Merryat , or Merret , but by the 1620s , his grandson , John , had taken control and was leasing the mills to a Stroud textile dealer , Gyles Davis . |
| 9 | I made the bed and was putting the clothes in the cupboard . |
| 10 | He patted a paunch that had swelled considerably since Gentle had last seen him , and was testing the seams of his shirt , which , like him , was florid and had seen better years . |