Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 2 | Eva was coming in at a high spot of the Army 's history . |
| 3 | Mr Ross was coming out of a door . |
| 4 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |
| 5 | I turned round : Vern was following on like a dog . |
| 6 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 7 | We were getting on famously by half-way round the second circuit and Dod was digging in to a case of canned lager he 'd hidden under his stool , then Martin said would n't it be a good idea if we actually played something . |
| 8 | I nodded to her and to Aline , who was Franco-Vietnamese and engaged to Hugh Watt , one of Ashley 's multitudinous cousins from the branch of the family that seemed to favour consorts of an exotic provenance ( Hugh 's brother Craig was going out with a stunning , lanky Nigerian called Noor ) . |
| 9 | I was born in May 1947 , when the whole of Britain was thawing out of a long , freezing winter made crueller by a fuel crisis . |
| 10 | Further unhappiness and a similar rift were generated over opinion and strategy in defence , where de Gaulle was striking out on a path different from that of the other Western allies , a path that culminated in the withdrawal of France from the NATO military command structure in 1966 , necessitating the removal of NATO headquarters from Paris to Brussels . |
| 11 | A jovial , curly-headed man , Mulverin was squelching around in a muddy yard outside the cowshed , mucking out with a spade . |
| 12 | By the time he felt able to add sound effects , Jenny was sitting down at a table with two girls and three youths . |
| 13 | PREMIER John Major was fiddling about at a cricket match yesterday while his overburdened Chancellor struggled with Britain 's burning economic problems . |
| 14 | Mrs Foster was fluttering around like a nervous bird . |
| 15 | Did n't we have to stop using it because Chrissy was coming out in a rash ? |
| 16 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |
| 17 | EMO was walking out of a studio one day when he was struck by a taxi . |
| 18 | While Mr Stych was canoeing back down a tributary of the Mackenzie– already dangerous with chunks of ice , to an appointment with a helicopter , Mr Frizzell was trying on his last year 's brocade waistcoat and finding it too small ; Mr MacDonald , Ian 's father , was winding up a trying compensation case for his insurance company at Vermilion ; and Mr MacDonald ( oil ) was trying to explain to his superiors in Sarnia , Ontario , why he must be back in a place like Tollemarche by the middle of December . |
| 19 | Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian . |