Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A twenty-three year old man was attacked in the early hours of the morning as he was walking up Cowley Road . |
| 32 | The twenty-year-old was walking outside Stoke Mandeville Hospital near Aylesbury when she was dragged into a field and attacked . |
| 33 | He was walking along Suffolk Parade to the post office to draw his pension , when he was approached by two youths . |
| 34 | The victim was walking along Sunnyside Drive at 11.30pm on Thursday when a man ran behind her and grabbed at her body . |
| 35 | Another prosecution witness , David Moss , was walking along Akers Way , when , he said , he saw 2 cars speeding down the road . |
| 36 | The 16 year-old victim was walking in West Thurrock , Essex . |
| 37 | In April last year Mrs. Gillespie was walking in Timberlog Lane , Basildon , with her two young children , aged two and four , when she was confronted by her husband . |
| 38 | A woman , aged 70 , was recovering at home yesterday after being attacked and robbed of her handbag as she was walking in Ernest Street , Boldon Colliery , after a night out playing bingo . |
| 39 | Police were last night hunting two youths who attacked and robbed a 23-year-old man of his wallet as he was walking near Stanhope Road , Newcastle , at the weekend . |
| 40 | ‘ Yer was sayin' about Joe Maitland blowin' the whistle on the fights at the Crown , Nell . |
| 41 | The next plane was smaller still , which gave her a qualm or two , but the journey was correspondingly shorter , and in next to no time she was disembarking at Grand Cayman 's airport . |
| 42 | At eight o'clock Alex was knocking on Matthew Prescott 's door . |
| 43 | Dr Gavin Strang , for Labour , said the Government had no idea of the poverty and misery which was occurring among hill farmers . |
| 44 | The landlord was poaching on palace grounds . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ I was upset it was happening during working hours , ’ he told the court . |
| 46 | A police spokesman confirmed a number of calls had been received from people worried about what was happening on Thursday afternoon . |
| 47 | What was happening to Aunt Carrie and to John 's family ? |
| 48 | The few states which actually measured what was happening to landfill capacity reported that it was increasing , in some cases because more waste was being diverted to recycling or waste-to-energy plants . |
| 49 | Our understanding of what was happening to party politics under William and Anne can only be complete when we consider the wider world outside Westminster , which will be the subject of the following chapter . |
| 50 | I never bought things from South Africa for many years , because of what was happening in South Africa . |
| 51 | George Wood conducted him to the parlour with reverence : high class was meeting great riches with talk of splicing these two irresistible institutions and it was happening in George Wood 's back parlour . |
| 52 | Athelstan stood there dreaming , wondering what was happening in St Erconwald 's . |
| 53 | Yelling the news to Douglas , who was swording with Sir Walter Comyn , Ramsay dashed through the struggling mass of men back for the stairway , Down he raced , two steps at a time , and out again into the night . |
| 54 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 55 | In Bonn yesterday , the CDU 's Secretary-General , Mr Volker Ruehe , dismissed suggestions that his party was interfering in East Germany . |
| 56 | When he was World Champion in sports cars , driving Jaguars for Walkinshaw , Brundle was the soul and embodiment of unostentation , a steady King 's Lynn lad who dutifully wore the team 's Silk Cut blazer and a squaddie' short back and sides when he was appearing on team duty . |
| 57 | Mark Michael Kearney , formerly of Sycamore Road , Great Cornard , was appearing at Chelmsford Crown Court charged with robbery and two counts of attempted murder . |
| 58 | Dominic Rymer , 25 , a nurse at Arrowe Park Hospital , Wirral , was appearing before Birkenhead magistrates . |
| 59 | He was dying on Sister Phillips ' ward . |
| 60 | A CANINE hero who helped save a dog which was dying from rat poison is now looking for a good home . |