Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 2 | Back at Club Eleusis , Jahsaxa Penumbra was tripping out like the bad queen in a fairy-tale cartoon , the only omission being the thunderclouds and lightning round her head . |
| 3 | Mrs Wright was sitting down on the bank , the gun across her knees . |
| 4 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 5 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 6 | Ellen was hurrying out of the solar . |
| 7 | Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep , pretending to watch out for something in the sky . |
| 8 | Back again on Grace , Tilda was messing about at the foot of the mast with a black and yellow flag , one of the very few they had . |
| 9 | Alan was sitting down at the end of the lawn , his back to the house ‘ so you do n't distract me ’ , finishing off some work for Monday . |
| 10 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 11 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 12 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |
| 13 | ‘ Shortly after it returned , Pete was rolling around on the carpet and found a titbit , ’ Andrew explained . |
| 14 | Frank was lying back on the pillows with his eyes closed . |
| 15 | Simon was reaching out for the drum . |
| 16 | Simon was coming back along the waterline with Ben trotting at his heels . |
| 17 | One day , Mildred was walking along in the park it was very , very hot and she was very , very tired ! |
| 18 | Fortunately she had managed to read quickly through her own piece , which looked really professional , but she wondered what J.D. was thundering about on the editorial page . |
| 19 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 20 | Fred was thundering on with the speech as though the corpse had n't fled , and at the same time bobbing up onto the balls of his feet with relief from the lost burden . |
| 21 | Thomas Sachs was looking out of the back window . |
| 22 | Carwyn Williams was sitting out on the balcony watching the waves . |
| 23 | Foinavon was plodding along towards the rear , but not that far behind the favourite Honey End , whose jockey Josh Gifford had not been tempted by the furious early pace and who was still running well within himself . |
| 24 | FitzAlan was leaning back against the wall , seemingly at ease , but his eyes were narrowed and the muscles of the forearm braced over his raised knee were rigid . |
| 25 | The tree-branches creaked and the dry leaves rattled , for Baba Yaga was flying back over the trees in her pestle and mortar . |
| 26 | Mrs Chalk was clattering round in the kitchen , and a savoury aroma was wafting from that region . |
| 27 | Meg was pointing out towards the far shore . |
| 28 | It seems that Meg was washing up in the pantry yesterday when Mr Swinton came in from the shore as is his custom in the afternoons , and you were with him ! |
| 29 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 30 | Maureen was getting on to the museum about bringing an expert to have a look at the place . ’ |