Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 2 | It were a bit charred by the lightning , but they plugged it in and music came out and the words to the music came up on the little television screen . ’ |
| 3 | The 1940s were a decade split by the great peace that ended the last European war in May 1945 , but it has its own domestic character — a character soon to be forgotten by succeeding decades , though in The Girls of Slender Means ( 1963 ) Muriel Spark aptly called it a time when ‘ all the nice people were poor ’ . |
| 4 | The Serbian Volunteers were a force recruited under the puppet government of Gen Nedic to serve Serbian interests , although this meant that they frequently had to act in concert with the Germans . |
| 5 | The four-man winners were a team led by the former British champion Tom De La Hunty |
| 6 | An accident when he was a boy resulted in the loss of his right hand , and throughout his adult life he wore a hook , hence the reference in The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple by Charles Lamb [ q.v . ] : |
| 7 | There was a door set into the wall behind the stone . |
| 8 | This was a position taken by the House of Lords in Lambert v Lewis [ 1982 ] AC 225 . |
| 9 | Only there was a lady lived at the manor , and she said — come up and see my grandmother and if she 'd look after us , she 'd keep us in clothes and food . |
| 10 | No there was a lady came round the other day , you know asking for erm volunteers to erm tape , you know , recording conversations between people and yourselves and the family , you know ? |
| 11 | There was a ballad composed on the event . |
| 12 | Among the fund raising activities organised was a raffle held by the PR department . |
| 13 | There too the only debt remaining outstanding from a business which had otherwise ceased more than a year before was a debt owed to the Inland Revenue . |
| 14 | It was a cavity made by the tumbling together of several large boulders , and roofed by the encroaching undergrowth . |
| 15 | Company No 00330 of 1991 ex p Holden [ 1991 ] BCC 241 , the service of a transfer notice was a requirement imposed by the company 's board under the Articles of Association . |
| 16 | My photographic equipment was a bit limited by the fact that as a leader I was required to carry a heavy hunting rifle all the time we were ashore , just in case we met with a polar bear in a nasty mood . |
| 17 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 18 | It was really good to see him in London last month ; I think he was a bit mystified by the church we went to , but it was good of him to come with me ! |
| 19 | But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House . |
| 20 | The rarity of tools is particularly emphasised by the numbers of woodworking tools found in both settlements and cemeteries ; whilst carpentry was a skill demonstrated in the construction of houses and fine items like cups of stave construction , woodworking tools are extremely rare . |
| 21 | There was a coach dragged off the line , but it did n't overturn , apparently , till everyone had been got out . |
| 22 | The tax was a poll-tax imposed by the Romans in 6 AD . |
| 23 | Imagining his Sara ‘ all oppressed with gloom ’ , Coleridge 's spontaneous reply was a poem set in the descriptive frame of an evening visit to Shurton Bars , the coastal area lying beyond a rich tract of open fields to the north of Shurton Court . |
| 24 | This was a tactic borrowed from the NCOAP . |
| 25 | In the centre of the room on a large mahogany table was a folder secured with the red wax seal of the United States government . |
| 26 | on the part of the public that this was a facility provided by the parish council , it 's not just a sports club facility as will develop over the years , which is what we intended , but it does n't belong to those clubs , facility was originally provided by us . |
| 27 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
| 28 | While it appears beyond dispute that ‘ a massive immigration and a strong economic upsurge ( meant that ) all sections of the economy profited from this growth ’ , Paris nevertheless remained during the whole of the period an area in which ‘ hand industry ’ predominated ; it was a capital associated with the production of articles of high fashion and luxury goods rather than a centre of heavy industry . |
| 29 | It was a mistake made in the context of over-enthusiasm for a solution to what is a nasty condition for a number of people , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Drinking the Hottest Cup of Tea was a competition reserved for the women . |