Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously we have n't been good away from home this season but I was pleased again with the attitude on Saturday . |
| 2 | They took me back to London that night , and looked after me carefully all the next day , so that , although my arm was still aching , and I felt very weak , I was fit enough for the planned journey on Wednesday . |
| 3 | ‘ I was happy enough with The Big Wheel apart from the fact that as a nine piece the bloody band nearly bankrupted me ! |
| 4 | And remembering it now , with the child of that night growing towards a life of its own in my body , I was appalled again by the memory of a frustration worse than any self-denial , which ended at dawn with us lying apart from each other , both pretending to be asleep but both staring with dry wide-awake eyes into a bottomless pit of dismay . |
| 5 | I got round this potential danger of tonal contrasts by ensuring that I was near enough to the boat to see it mainly in its own shadows ( figure XX ) , thus reducing the glare of white , and thereby allowing a less contrasting tonal interplay between boat and background . |
| 6 | I was full just after the first one . |
| 7 | Taylor supposed originally that slip in ductile crystals was due entirely to those dislocations which were present initially in the crystal due to the accidents of imperfect growth . |
| 8 | There were other places that they loved which were accessible only in the summer . |
| 9 | From this time , at first in Europe and North America , and subsequently in the rest of the world , a great number of social movements developed — nationalist movements in Central and Southeastern Europe , and later in colonial territories ; women 's movements which were concerned initially with the right to vote ; youth movements ; and a host of smaller , more sectional movements advocating particular causes — while the labour movement continued to advance and engendered a variety of new organizations on a national and international scale . |
| 10 | Among those with carcinoma of the floor of the mouth , which was second only to the tongue as the most common site , 55 ( 76% ) had a history of smoking . |
| 11 | The south-facing windows caught all the available light which was meagre enough in the winter . |
| 12 | They said in a statement : ‘ That dispute was referred by our client to professional advisers acting on his behalf who negotiated a settlement with the builders which was acceptable both to the builders and to our client . ’ |
| 13 | Pressure for reform , which was concerned primarily with the ending of special share issues and dividend payments to exchange members , began after investigations following the 1987 crash [ see p. 35742 ] . |
| 14 | It seems that , carried away by the feverish and bellicose atmosphere which was evident both on the streets of Paris and in the Assembly , Ollivier and Gramont strayed from the prepared text , firm but non-provocative in tone , and proceeded to make its content more aggressive . |
| 15 | Given their portrayal by trade unionists as rich members of the bourgeouisie who were concerned only over the value of their property , they did not expect a sympathetic reception from workers . |
| 16 | ‘ You were willing enough at the time . |
| 17 | She was sorry immediately for the outburst . |
| 18 | She was close enough to the dead man to arrange to meet him at an isolated spot without arousing suspicions . |
| 19 | Julian took her companion by the hand , and wormed her way round elbows and between shoulders as far down the street as she could , drawing Brother John after her ; but before she was close enough to the gatehouse to see what was happening there she was brought to a halt , and could move no farther . |
| 20 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 21 | She was far away in the world of her imagination . |
| 22 | Alison Taylor , the former Gwynedd social worker who says she was sacked for speaking out about the abuses in care , told Community Care last week that she was concerned both at the slow progress of the investigations and the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute certain individuals on grounds of insufficient evidence . |
| 23 | Nothing grew in or around the stonework and , as she wandered around , she was aware also of the silence . |
| 24 | She was puzzled only by the unmistakable largesse of the confidence proffered to her , because try as she might , she could not persuade herself that Clelia could talk like this , so wittily and intimately and inquiringly , to everyone ; she could not believe that she could talk like this to many . |
| 25 | Not even hearing the rolling crackle above , she was conscious only of the moving light , as the footsteps began again and it swung this way and that , searching something out . |
| 26 | Today she was hungry only for the house . |
| 27 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 28 | She was stuck there with the bags , she could n't leave them to go and pick the child up . |
| 29 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 30 | Two of the Actuarial typists were then smuggled in to the delight of the all male audience and sang ‘ Three Little Girls ’ along with ‘ Nobby ’ Knox , who was distinguishable only by the fact that he was the one not wearing a mini-skirt . |