Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slow , steady rhythm was pulsing in her veins . |
| 2 | Madonna openly boasted of her ten year plan , now Kylie was drawing up hers . |
| 3 | ‘ What Bert was saying about my ‘ harem ’ , ’ he said easily as the car purred forwards into the traffic . |
| 4 | All at once , a dignified Jeff was walking towards her and Guido , looking Guido straight in the eye as though he had nothing to fear . |
| 5 | A great deal was riding on it : some said the Fox studio was at stake . |
| 6 | Then the toot of a trumpet and the clown with the enormous sorrowful eyes was coming at her in her ring-side seat and she wanted to run away . |
| 7 | Rachel , her hands on her hips , half laughing with exasparation , wondered just what demands the formidable Irene Markham was putting on her son . |
| 8 | She could tell that Dr Neil was looking at her most sceptically , although he was touching her so gently that the black fear which she had felt before she had fainted did not return — and pooh to his suspicions ! |
| 9 | Dr Neil was pulling on his clothes , hiding his scarred body , the scars which she had embraced in their mutual passion . |
| 10 | Marie was waiting for me and when I caught up with her she linked her arm in mine . |
| 11 | When he went in , Marie was sitting at her desk . |
| 12 | His hair was sticky with blood and a purple bruise was spreading across his temple . |
| 13 | It was an enraging affectation , worthy of an Oxford undergraduate , especially as Charlie might do it in the middle of a conversation , as he had done recently at a college gig : the Union President was talking to him when Charlie 's hands reached into his side pocket , the book was extracted and opened , and the man 's eyes popped in disbelief as Charlie imbibed a beakerful of the warm South . |
| 14 | As the hacks speculated about the cloud of black smoke that suddenly appeared over the palace roof — it did not mean that no decision had been taken , only that a chimney had caught fire — the President was browsing in his favourite bookshop , Les Arcades , just below The Sunday Telegraph 's Paris office . |
| 15 | These kids was coming at us once and six of them grabbed hold of me and when I turned round all the others had fucked off and left me to get a kicking … |
| 16 | Jean was clinging onto his arm , as though to stop him inflicting more hurt . |
| 17 | The main course arrived and Mahoney sat back in his seat , seeing how intently Donna was looking at him , hanging on his every word . |
| 18 | But most of these can be regarded as experimental works designed to clarify the problems that Picasso was facing in his painting . |
| 19 | At last Meredith was looking at her . |
| 20 | Ranulf the rat-catcher was waiting for him just outside the door , a sleek , well-fed Bonaventure in his hands . |
| 21 | Rose was silent , only too aware that the whole workroom was listening to them . |
| 22 | Before she could explain what she meant , Mr Hollins was laughing at her . |
| 23 | Rock was rebelling against my parents , but jazz was rebelling against my parents as well as all my peers , because they did n't have any idea what I was talking about ! ’ |
| 24 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 25 | Dr Rafaelo was standing with his arms folded across his chest , and a very bad-tempered look on his face . |
| 26 | And on the other hand , a gorilla in a Top Shop suit called Nevil was looking for me , though he had n't bargained for Lisabeth 's own version of the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme . |
| 27 | Irony was returning to his voice . |
| 28 | Morton reluctantly went over , and peered at the object which Burney was indicating with his probe . |
| 29 | While Dustin was appearing in his first lead role on Broadway , he was filming at the Biograph Studios in darkest Bronx , thirty minutes by limo ( laid on nightly by Twentieth Century-Fox ) from the Great White Way . |
| 30 | My mind was crawling with it all . |