Example sentences of "that [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced up with dread and peered into the sea of faces that was watching her with curiosity . |
| 2 | Those first six dancers had come to celebrate the newly awakened school of English classical dance that was establishing itself with the coming of peace . |
| 3 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 4 | He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck . |
| 5 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 6 | He did n't turn his head to identify the car that was trailing it in case he was recognized . |
| 7 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |
| 8 | The next landing stage , this one at a tree-covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian-manned boat that was carrying him to prison . |
| 9 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 10 | The worst of it was that his headaches made him so angry ; it was a symptom of the poison that was killing him by degrees . |
| 11 | It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles . |