Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It read , Dear Sir Geoffrey , I am sorry that I was out of the office when you telephoned this afternoon . |
| 2 | Barnes , 30 , added : ‘ I knew fairly soon that I was out of the Test match and now I am struggling to be fit for the Taranaki game on Wednesday . |
| 3 | And you told Maman that I was out in the woods . |
| 4 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 5 | Once I was out of the cab I ran and ran , and lost her ; she wo n't know where to look , the pavements are covered with footmarks . |
| 6 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 7 | All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side . |
| 8 | It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end . |
| 9 | She 'd get a move on once she was up from the harbour . |
| 10 | But a cool , almost unnatural calm had hit her once she was back in the bustle of the city . |
| 11 | It 's all a far cry from June 1987 when Margaret Thatcher was returned to power with a handsome majority of 101 seats , although it was down on the 1983 win . |
| 12 | He was trying to read a newspaper , but although he was out of the wind the pages kept on fluttering . |
| 13 | The inquiry is limited to events after 1986 , but Mr Patten appeared to be saying that it was up to the head of the inquiry , under the oversight of the Police Complaints Authority , to decide whether to extend it . |
| 14 | They insisted that the massacre was China 's internal affair , that China had done nothing to harm the United States ' interests , and that it was up to the US to take the initiative in repairing relations . |
| 15 | Laws used to specify offences such as loitering with intent or malicious wounding , so that it was up to the prosecutor to prove the evil character of an act that might be more or less culpable . |
| 16 | Moreover the whole point of the form of the public corporation favoured by moderate opinion in all parties ( and represented in the Labour Party by the Morrisonian conception ) was that it was up to the management ( and not the politicians or civil servants ) to develop the details of policy and organisation within only very broad guidelines . |
| 17 | In 1989 the Supreme Court had assisted employers to defend themselves by ruling that it was up to the worker to prove that such practices did not constitute a " business necessity " . |
| 18 | He said that the PLO was pushing hard for a role for Arafat in Monday 's ceremony and that President Clinton believed that it was up to the PLO to choose its delegation . |
| 19 | It is traditionally accepted that it was in about the year 753 B.C. that a tribe of people settled near the Tiber on the Palatine Hill . |
| 20 | It was not long after that , though , that the rain decided once again to make an appearance and Ven decreed that it was in for the rest of the day . |
| 21 | We held a referendum on Britain 's membership of the Community in order to extract the Labour party from the difficulty that it was in at the time . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the price of the prototype was so high that it was out of the financial reach of the archaeological community . |
| 23 | On Feb. 11 Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Ghazi Obaid as Sammar said that it was out of the question for foreign observers to monitor the elections , which were a purely internal matter . |
| 24 | For the third time in twenty-four hours , the King replied that it was out of the question . |
| 25 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 26 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 27 | When Minton first met him he had already discovered Soho and , whilst telling his opera-singer mother that he was off to the Science Museum , would take the tube to Tottenham Court Road to wash dishes in the Budapest run by Victor Sassie ( later the proprietor of the Gay Hussar ) . |
| 28 | The latest development , according to his secretary , was that he was out of the country . |
| 29 | On July 1st he was writing to say that he was back at the studio , and how delightful it was to be free of catheters , bougies , and syringes . |
| 30 | Jake Reynolds was arrested in the seaside town of Cromer Norfolk after his lawyer confirmed reports that he was back in the country . |