Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early morning planes were heard passing over in the mist and the rain . |
| 2 | The works production shops were to remain laid out in the form described for progressive building and repairing , only marginally altering over the years to accommodate new designs and techniques , such as the Stanier all steel body panelling design of the early 1930s . |
| 3 | But because interest rates were expected to drop gradually over the coming 12 months , the view was that by early 1991 confidence would have returned , volumes picked up and prices started to lift — even if only by the inflation rate . |
| 4 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 5 | New arrivals were expected to blend smoothly into the fabric of Canadian life . |
| 6 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 7 | The Blackpool cars were the largest , seating 84 , and two conductors were carried to cope respectively with the upper deck and the large platform doors . |
| 8 | Under South Korean electoral law only officially registered campaign workers were permitted to participate formally in the campaign . |
| 9 | It seems to me from what Mr in particular said , that the bottom as it were has dropped out of the market to this extent that it seems that the policy that he 's advocating , is not thirty one thousand any more , but thirty one thousand plus any amount of windfalls and recycling . |
| 10 | The other structures were dispersed to linger only in the imagination of designers ; in its place Conservative freedom provided London with the first of the giant company headquarters built in the style of Orwell 's Ministry of Truth — the Shell building ( 1958 ) . |
| 11 | Indeed in cases where such companies had a vital stake , as with the British South Africa Union Minière in Zaire they were seen to behave badly at the very point at which their host countries became independent . |
| 12 | In those days , dealers were seen running madly from the nearest underground station at 8.20 a.m. , or else clambering into taxis . |
| 13 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 14 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 15 | A spokesman for the Housing Corporation , which regulates housing associations , said they were refusing to go ahead with the scheme without funding for running costs . |
| 16 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 17 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 18 | From the back of the room where they were made to stand apart from the family for the rest of the ceremony , the three children were able to hear only snatches of their grandfather 's words as he conducted a long discourse praising the virtues of his dead parent . |
| 19 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 20 | A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead . |
| 21 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 22 | The small number of us who were attached to the building itself either retired or were offered work elsewhere with the authority . |
| 23 | Unfortunately those officers were needed to help out with the incident at Milton Keynes … shortly before the display . |
| 24 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 25 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 26 | Furthermore , they were told to point out to the mother that LGS would not reduce the output of stool from the sick child , but was meant to prevent the dehydration associated with the diarrhoea . |
| 27 | Approaching a set of traffic lights where she normally went straight on , and where the queue ahead seemed to stretch into infinity , she realised that only a few cars were waiting to turn left into the Cheltenham road . |
| 28 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 29 | That the familiar switchback nose and scraps of grey hair were going to melt away into the darkness . |
| 30 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |