Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] were [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the final article is likely to have been polished by Sir David English , the editor and long-standing friend of Margaret Thatcher , prompted speculation that the Number 10 knives were out for the Chancellor , and that his days might be numbered . |
| 2 | The Express , by contrast , detects unsheathed Conservative blades : ‘ Tory knives were out for the BBC … the Prime Minister is said to have told friends : ‘ my views on the BBC 's coverage are not printable . ’ |
| 3 | I know for a fact that these nets were back in the river , in the hands of poachers , a very short time after they have been captured by the commission . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 5 | His great days were over by the middle of the 1830s , although he was still active , on a much reduced scale , until at least the middle of the next decade . |
| 6 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 7 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 8 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 9 | By the end of 1923 levels were down to the best pre-1921 records for Saratov . |
| 10 | Yet now some of these standoffish people from an introvert world were out on the GalacNet lines , coming to meet Mala and me . |
| 11 | As far as we could tell the Moslem factions were out of the fray for the time being . |
| 12 | For a while it seemed as if all the woes of Welsh rugby were down to The Gnoll — though this theory was eventually disproved by the World Cup . |
| 13 | Dunan and twenty Hearthwares were out in the Circle to keep an eye on them anyway . |
| 14 | Susan giggled when the two lads were up at the bar . |
| 15 | He , Kelley and the other Rex were back in the top-secret room . |
| 16 | The immigration procedures , even for Nadirpur , were a mere formality , and in under ten minutes all four passengers were through to the arrivals lounge . |
| 17 | All the local folk were out in the street to welcome him home in his uniform and red beret of the Parachute Regiment . |
| 18 | Both dogs were out of the back of the van , straining on their leads to reach Water Gypsy 's gangplank . |
| 19 | Next moment , both men were out of the cab and sprinting back towards the blazing house . |