Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt tired , slightly drunk and frightened ; if an assassin was hunting him then the dark runnels of Edinburgh at night would only provide fresh opportunities . |
| 2 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 3 | Bruce was showing him how the new tree planting was coming on . |
| 4 | Vincent 's conscience was telling him precisely the opposite , and at the top of its voice . |
| 5 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 6 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
| 7 | Probably the most important effect of his reading of Joyce was to make him all the more aware of the possibilities of his anthropological reading , especially when applied to modern city life in the context of inanity or death : city life was filled with fatal torpor and Eliot described London as shrivelling , like an aged little bookkeeper . |
| 8 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 9 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |