Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 2 | Those testing to these abuses often explained that their treatment was due to the intrigues of local government officials , who were accusing them of collaboration with the Contras . |
| 3 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 4 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 5 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 6 | Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten . |
| 7 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 8 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 9 | He turned towards Sylvia Toye , who was watching him with a smile on her face . |
| 10 | She could look neither at Dr Neil , nor at the tasteless harpy who was tormenting him with her tactlessness . |
| 11 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 12 | Living alone with an Aunt Louise who was acting someone with a grievance might , I thought , be rather difficult . ) |
| 13 | He was listening to Dinah Asshe , who was addressing him with laughter in her voice ; the voice that had charmed half London . |
| 14 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was Mrs Iverson who was telling us about it after he mentioned it . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't make any bread out of it , just me own gear , like , and I was still in debt to this lad who was laying it on me . |
| 19 | These , too , had been fated , Wexford 's broken by a pretty young woman who was helping him with his enquiries and Burden 's one day inadvertently put out with the rubbish . |
| 20 | ‘ Christopher , ’ said Francis to Jane , who was helping him with the sheep the next morning , ‘ has been like a father to me . ’ |
| 21 | This can happen if , for example , the sub-purchaser bought the goods from someone who was hiring them on hire purchase terms . |
| 22 | The quality of those crosses was nt up to much most of the time — but some credit has to go to their keeper who was taking everything within 12–13 yards of his line … |
| 23 | She had told him she was promised that evening to Charles Harvey , who was taking her to Jeffrey Archer 's party . |
| 24 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 25 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 26 | And again he looked around , this time for the devil who was tempting him with the prospect he most profoundly desired . |
| 27 | However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . |
| 28 | Normally , Pooley was concerned to hide his upper-class origins from the general public as well as from his police confrères , but occasionally Eton came in useful when he wanted to discomfit a member of the public who was treating him like PC Plod . |
| 29 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 30 | But the former golden girl of British tennis , who was mixing it with the world 's elite just five years ago , was pegged back when Smith won the second set tie-break 7-2 . |