Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking through jungles was a daily routine . |
| 2 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 3 | She was killing two birds with one stone , she thought cheerfully : she really did feel sorry for Veronica , and keeping in touch was the only way she 'd find out more about the woman 's relationship with her husband . |
| 4 | It would be a sad day if it was thought that a change of mind on the part of a local authority in any question relating to children was an admission of past error . |
| 5 | Returning to Plumford was the last thing that Peter intended to do . |
| 6 | What he really needed to come out of this marriage smelling of roses was a lucky accident . |
| 7 | Catching low tide in the early hours and searching through mud was no particular hardship to Stan and he soon began to find fossil fishes . |
| 8 | For Belinda , looking after Sophie was the only way she knew how to deal with the shock . |
| 9 | Living in Capernaum was a Roman centurion , who was obviously sympathetic to the Jews and their religion . |
| 10 | The legal position of some 350,000 Chinese nationals living in Indonesia was a further issue remaining to be resolved . |
| 11 | He adds that ‘ There is little doubt that here existed a town in the time of the Britons ’ and a settlement grew around the Druidic university which according to Peck was the ancient British city of Doorebriff , meaning ‘ sharp stream ’ . |
| 12 | It was impossible to see his face , but Tyler assumed the man to be Beth 's husband , Wilson Ryan , who according to Ben was a man of considerable reputation in the millinery world , not without fortune , and most certainly the ideal partner for Beth . |
| 13 | Equally damaging to Collor was the claim to the federal police by an Argentine drug trafficker linked to the Colombian Medellín cartel , that he had used one of Farias 's aircraft to supply acetone and ether to Bolivia , Colombia and Paraguay , returning with refined cocaine and coca paste . |
| 14 | NICRA 's official history records that the association ‘ was slowly coming to realise that a ban on demonstrations was an effective Government weapon against political protest and that although letter writing to Stormont was a fine form of occupational therapy , it was unlikely to bring amy worthwhile results ’ . |
| 15 | I subsequently established from Mr. Docherty 's mother that the other factor preventing him from living at home was the fact that his presence would have had an impact on the family 's eligibility for housing benefit and would have resulted in additional poll tax liability which the family simply could not meet . |
| 16 | He also knew that shouting at Lennie was the only way to make him understand . |
| 17 | The research did n't explore the sorts of relationships that parents wanted but it 's a pretty safe guess that they wanted teachers that did n't shout ; the Newsons ( 1984 ) reported that shouting by teachers was the major complaint which mothers made on behalf of their eleven-year-olds . |
| 18 | Spraying with tar was a later development in which McAdam himself had no part . |
| 19 | It was a prosperous community : going to America was a big step to take , and one that would not be taken by people with prospects at the top of English society unless they were going out to fill a government post , but for anyone else it was likely to lead to a higher standard of living than could reasonably be expected in Britain . |
| 20 | Going to school was an adventure ; no 'buses for us , there would be bird nesting in spring , and during the appropriate sea-son hoops would ring along the roads to school , to be hung on our pegs on the cloak-room ready for the race home . |
| 21 | Associated with the orders were the colour and the pageantry of war : the richness of the apparels ; the emphasis on the outward trappings ( say of the heralds ) ; the sense that going to war was an occasion , just as tournaments or jousts were occasions . |
| 22 | Cattle stealing for ransom was the most common form in many districts . |
| 23 | Whether or not routine patrolling of neighbourhoods was an economical use of manpower , there was no doubt that it reflected a heartfelt public desire to see more policemen on the beat . |
| 24 | Getting onto Switchboard was the easy part . |
| 25 | He used to say that staying with friends was the best way to kill a friendship . |
| 26 | Sending in bailiffs was the last straw . |
| 27 | Some properties can be identified with little difficulty : Dale 's holding in Empingham was the manor of Hardwick , once a flourishing hamlet , which by 1522 had evidently shrunk to the single farm it has long been ; there was just one tenant . |
| 28 | And sometimes we make that mistake as though speaking in tongues was the Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | Getting across Burma was a real problem . |
| 30 | Things were quieter than usual and travelling through London was a breeze . |