Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 32 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 33 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 34 | Several Perks were fighting to get out of the crack . |
| 35 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 36 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 37 | There was talk of the whole station 's being moved into purpose-built accommodation some time in the future , but so far nothing definite had been arranged , so they were forced to put up with the cramped conditions and lack of amenities , like parking . |
| 38 | Their enemies drove them out arid they were forced to live down in the marshes of Kelfazin . |
| 39 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 40 | We , at least , are a leaner and , I hope , a healthier organisation because of the changes we were forced to bring about in the workshop . |
| 41 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 42 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 43 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 44 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 45 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 46 | Unfortunately , if you got too close to him you were tempted to look around for the source of the odour — perhaps there was an overdressed salad in the vicinity ? |
| 47 | The BR stated that 200 lives were lost thrown out from the carriage door on the ‘ Inter City ’ trains ; this happened on the curve on the track , at this point the speed was 100 mph ( suicide ) . |
| 48 | In particular , they do not include patients who died or were lost to follow up in the prolonged interval between treatment and the onset of symptoms . |
| 49 | It rained solidly every single day in fact , and it did n't stop as we were queuing to drive on to the ferry . |
| 50 | In East Africa , travellers were advised to watch out for the variety of indigenous ‘ types ’ to be seen at railway stations , from the Islamic , partly Arabized , Swahili of the coast , to the Kamba and Kikuyu of the interior , and then , a special treat , the magnificent Masai , bearing their shields and spears in a sadly peaceable demonstration of subjection , before reaching the Nilotic peoples of the shore of Lake Victoria . |
| 51 | Girls were chosen to go along to the Sophisticut salon in Paignton , Devon where they spent the day being pampered and totally transformed by Christopher and his artistic team . |
| 52 | How she was goin' to put up with the wee 'un 's fancy talk and fancy ways , she did n't know . |
| 53 | Ken played Julius Caesar in a picture that , with no apologies , was intended to cash in on the fame of the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton fiasco of the previous year . |
| 54 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 55 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 56 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 57 | It took a moment for the full enormity of what was happening to filter through to the brandy-drenched consciousness of the member reading The Times . |
| 58 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 59 | Jess wondered uncomfortably whether she was expected to move out of the way and let the old ditherer through , or side with the Law and her own interests . |
| 60 | The USA had previously been opposed to such involuntary repatriation , as had the Vietnamese government , but the latter was expected to go along with the initiative , given its current desire to restore diplomatic relations with the USA . |