Example sentences of "[indef pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tough to see the connection , unless someone was thinking of the body count in Hamlet . ’ |
| 2 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 3 | Someone was watching from the shadows of the forest . |
| 4 | As I turned away someone was shouting for the M.O . |
| 5 | Maybe someone was shouting in the courtyard . ’ |
| 6 | Someone was calling to the watchman . |
| 7 | She skirted the fires , seeing no sign of movement , then realized that someone was running through the dark trees towards her . |
| 8 | Someone was talking about the accident last night in the saloon — word soon gets round on the Island . |
| 9 | Someone was hammering in the cellar . |
| 10 | Someone was sitting at the stone chess table . |
| 11 | Someone was knocking at the door . |
| 12 | Unmistakably someone was coming up the stairs . |
| 13 | Someone was coming up the stairs , treading quickly and lightly . |
| 14 | Someone was standing at the door of the music-room . |
| 15 | Someone was standing on the parapet , leaning over and looking down . |
| 16 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 17 | He knew if someone was standing in the blind spot directly behind him , he was in trouble . |
| 18 | No sign of Julie , but someone was walking up the drive towards the house . |
| 19 | Someone was walking up the hill , and his whisper echoed in the cypresses . |
| 20 | If someone was lurking in the garden , then they could stay there . |
| 21 | Someone was shooting at the fringes of the beech woods , on the heather moor . |
| 22 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 23 | THE UK clocked up record exports of £4.3 billion in January , but nobody was cheering in the City yesterday , writes Magnus Grimond . |
| 24 | Nobody was looking at the thicket at the moment the wounded cow broke cover . |
| 25 | But when Woodruffe took Woolley in to see it , nobody was looking at the trench-systems . |
| 26 | Witcher was uncomfortably aware that nobody was laughing at the Doctor . |
| 27 | Yes , somebody was coming along the passage — a man . |
| 28 | and they thought that he was the accomplice sitting outside while somebody was going round the house . |
| 29 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 30 | If one were gazing at the vertex of a tetrahedron , would the view be different ? |