Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 2 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 3 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 4 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 5 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 6 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 7 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 8 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 9 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 10 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 11 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 12 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 13 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 14 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 15 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 16 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 17 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 18 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 19 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 20 | While all you fairweather golfers were fattening yourselves for the spring sunshine , I was running 15 miles a week in an effort to gain the necessary fitness for a 27-tournament season . |
| 21 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 22 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 23 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 24 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 25 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 26 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 27 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 28 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 29 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 30 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |