Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 2 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 6 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 7 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 8 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |
| 9 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 10 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 11 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 12 | Felicity was wearing nothing but the great swirl of hair and the flower in it . |
| 13 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 14 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 15 | Churchill was telling everyone of the dangers in Europe but no one would listen . |
| 16 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 17 | George Orwell was warning everyone of the plight of poverty-stricken masses , whose only salvation was socialism and not the sort recommended by vegetarian cranks in sandals . |