Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 2 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 3 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 4 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 5 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 6 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 7 | Probably dropped in when we were shaking them in the bowl , Rice Krispies seemed to get everywhere , undo the thing and there 's Rice Krispies everywhere , |
| 8 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 9 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 10 | Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten . |
| 11 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 12 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 15 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 16 | I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you … ? ’ she began , but she did n't want to believe what was staring her in the face . |
| 18 | The answer was staring me in the face . |
| 19 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 20 | Well he was poking me in the groin . |
| 21 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 22 | I nearly forgot how old you are when I was putting you in the book . |
| 23 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 24 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 25 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 26 | On the speakers , Kim Carnes was feeling it in the air and praising the Universal Song . |
| 27 | I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races . |
| 28 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 29 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 30 | And he ki he was killing them in the back yard there . |