Example sentences of "was [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 2 | Circumstantial evidence may include that the defendant was the only person with the car keys ; he was seen getting out of the vehicle ; he was seen going towards or getting in the vehicle and/or he said he was going to drive the vehicle . |
| 3 | Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide . |
| 4 | One Tory MP was seen coming out of the Whips ' office in tears before last night 's vote . |
| 5 | On , a strange dog was seen running out through the main gate with aforementioned chicken in his mouth and a packet of Paxo around his neck ! |
| 6 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 7 | Some gave themselves fierce noms de guerre , ‘ Rambo ’ and ‘ El Negro ’ , as if their only purpose was fighting for its own sake , though even that purpose was largely wishful thinking ; much of their time was spent hanging round in the camps , doing nothing . |
| 8 | I stared at him because he sounded so cold , but he was sitting looking down at the glass which he held on his knees and I could n't see his face . |
| 9 | Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . |
| 10 | Our William was left standing out in the street for half an hour soaking . |
| 11 | ‘ When the poor man was asleep , someone came upstairs and began to pull the thread attached to the slow fuse which was left lying out on the gallery . |
| 12 | Marcus was standing looking down at the woman . |
| 13 | He was standing staring out of the window and his mother looked at him reproachfully . |