Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the garden " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all , 255 young trees were planted , a huge task which was completed by the garden team at Nymans in ten days and which has already gone a good way towards restoring the diversity of colours , shapes and textures of conifers in their prime . |
| 2 | I was walking across the garden after breakfast , enjoying the clear wintry air , when suddenly my body was again torn by those indescribable feelings which I always experienced after a dose of the drug . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , ’ now she understood , ‘ because I — was walking in the garden to clear my head and I happened to see — ’ |
| 4 | Nick was walking in the garden with his father-in-law , a tall , lean , bald-headed Scot who had flown down to London for a couple of days and come out to see his daughter between one business appointment and another . |
| 5 | I took a picture of the dog as it looked up while lying next to my sister Jayne , who was sunbathing in the garden . |
| 6 | If someone was lurking in the garden , then they could stay there . |
| 7 | ‘ I was looking at the garden , ’ she said , drawing in a sharp breath , adding to herself , and dreaming of escape . |
| 8 | I was looking at the garden as I came in , I thought I might have , even though I did n't know the number |
| 9 | The Gresham telescope was demonstrated to Charles II in October 1660 and then at the king 's request was moved to the garden at Whitehall Palace . |
| 10 | When he stepped out onto the verandah again , to his astonishment a mob of twenty or more Annamese was swarming across the garden dragging between them drums of oil and petrol stolen from the tractor sheds , intent on firing the house . |
| 11 | A goose paddock was transformed into the garden . |
| 12 | It was buried in the garden with all due ceremony , and all I knew or felt at the time was grief that I should never see my beloved pet again . |
| 13 | It was a warm , spring morning and I was lying in the garden , reflecting on life in general and taking it easy , when I heard this music coming from the top-floor flat where the windows were all open — and there was somebody singing . |
| 14 | So something was growing in the garden after all ! |
| 15 | The whole 10′ x 4′ x 4′ unit was dragged across the garden using ladders and chain blocks . |
| 16 | Richard Miles , who was 29 , was known to be worried days before his body was found in the garden of the family home near Stonehouse in Gloucestershire . |
| 17 | They 've been cleared of murdering 29 year old Isadore Johnson whose body was found in the garden of a house opposite his home in Kenmuir Avenue . |
| 18 | At the start , Lottie was confounded by the garden : |
| 19 | I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it . |
| 20 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 21 | The next afternoon , Constance was sitting in the garden with the dog when she heard the sound of Nicky 's car . |
| 22 | The next morning I was sitting in the garden in the sun when suddenly I saw young Rupert of Hentzau on horse- back coming through the trees towards me . |
| 23 | She had only just seen that Beuno had come and was sitting in the garden amongst the wild Welsh poppies and the camomile daisies and the pheasant feathers . |
| 24 | He 'd sent a photograph in and he was sitting in the garden and right and he was on a garden chair and he had his nice hair washed and shiny . |
| 25 | ‘ Since the day this lady 's lord was removed to the Garden Tower methinks , ’ she responded plainly . |
| 26 | ‘ The swinging signboard fell down and was left in the garden for 14 months . |
| 27 | In the early 1970s , I recall , he was associated with the Garden Furniture Ensemble , a small , diverting collective of performer-composers ( Mason is a fine violist ) with roots in the halcyon innocence of British Experimental Music . |
| 28 | It was a warm , sunny day and she was playing in the garden while her mother was hanging out the washing . |
| 29 | A visit was planned to the Garden Festival at Ebbw Vale in South Wales where , in theory , there were no steam trains . |
| 30 | and the night we slept in the garden and the night before we went we , Mrs was taken ill and I was giving her , tepid sponges up and the towel where she was sleeping in the garden |