Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] beside [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silas was kneeling beside her in an instant , his face pale as he muttered huskily , ‘ Damned rabbits — they wait till you 're almost upon them . |
| 2 | Before I knew it , she was lying beside me in the small white tent . |
| 3 | A dying man asked for a chair to be placed by his bedside , because he sensed that Jesus Christ was sitting beside him in the darkness throughout the night . |
| 4 | Mlle van Williamsburgh was sitting beside him in a corner of the study , by the fire . |
| 5 | Two years ago he was involved in a dreadful crash on the western Ring Road in which his wife , who was sitting beside him in the passenger seat , received such serious injuries to the lower half of the body that for the rest of her life — a life which ended tragically last week — she was confined to a wheel-chair . |
| 6 | So here she was sitting beside me on the window-seat , shut in between a heavy curtain and a window . |
| 7 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 8 | He was sitting beside me in the jump seat or that generally occupied by a second pilot because in those days there were no flight engineers on twin-engined aircraft . |
| 9 | Jack was standing beside her at the time filling in notes , and she quickly jotted down the address and the scant details they were offered , and turned to him . |
| 10 | Mike Junior was standing beside her in a Giants sweatshirt , a football tucked under his arm . |
| 11 | He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil . |
| 12 | We did n't say anything for a while , I was leaning beside him against his bench watching him clean off the rust . |