Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | While Foggerty and Sylvester were shaking their heads over the modern young back in the staff-room , Nutty and her team were congregating at the refrigerator factory to take another look at the amazing happening . |
| 32 | Randall smiled again with a hint of mockery , settled the bet and turning away with his kerchief pressed even more firmly to his nose , moved into the cockpit where the cock-masters were preparing their birds for the fight . |
| 33 | Andy did some earlier work for Palm and Palm were showing their products at the ISPO exhibition . |
| 34 | R.B. And of course where I was sat you see you were waving your hands through the air and I noticed it … |
| 35 | The EEC Court of Justice , however , was set up to interpret the Treaty of Rome and ensure that both the EEC institutions and the member states were fulfilling their obligations under the treaty . |
| 36 | Mrs Beckett was one of four MPs to announce they were throwing their hats into the ring for the post of deputy leader . |
| 37 | they were dangling their toes at the end of this thing . |
| 38 | Even philanthropists , like Henry Mayhew and Charles Booth , who penetrated into the slums to record how the very poor lived , were reproducing their findings through the filter of their own middle-class minds . |
| 39 | When they were swanning around looking pretty , our families were working their fingers to the bone for virtually nothing and now Miss High-and-Mighty thinks we should admire them . |
| 40 | It was now part of their ingrained thinking that the newspaper barons were imposing their standards on the population by rewriting the language of tabloid journalism . |
| 41 | The foresters of fee were to bring their rolls before the Council , and were ‘ to be there in person , to propound the King 's claim ’ . |
| 42 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 43 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 44 | Procles was using his wits in the sort of intellectual games — rationalistic interpretations of myths , comparisons of popular military leaders — which appealed to the Greek and Roman public . |
| 45 | I slept badly and had a dream that was to confirm my fears about the ghost . |
| 46 | Vass was gathering their bags from the car boot and leading Lisa and a wide-eyed Emily across a courtyard to the front door of the house . |
| 47 | In September 1692 he produced a Whiggish Jacobite tract in which he rehearsed all the traditional charges against William ( adding to the list the recent massacre at Glencoe ) , and argued that " If it was to preserve our Liberties from the insults of King James , we placed the Prince upon the Throne , we have certainly either mistaken the Disease or the Cure " . |
| 48 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
| 49 | Cecilia found she had clenched her fists and was driving her nails into the palms of her hands . |
| 50 | Meanwhile the Conservative Party was regrouping its forces after the defeat of 1945 , building up better-organised and larger constituency parties and reorganising its ideology . |
| 51 | Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared , knife poised over his head . |
| 52 | I was saving my energies for the return journey . |
| 53 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 54 | She had sat up and was pulling her fingers through the tangled forest . |
| 55 | Now all he had to do was convince his colleagues in the company of the fact . |
| 56 | Amanda Fergusson was directing her field-glasses at the Monastery of Saint James , and her face bore an expression of prim pleasure which shocked her companion . |
| 57 | Those of the first two Edwards were fought against enemies whose common aim was to rid their countries of the English aggressor , but whose methods of doing so differed . |
| 58 | He was gritting his teeth against the pain , keeping it at bay while he studied the stump , the severed hand . |
| 59 | Jeremiah was wearing his pin-stripes with the seat shiny from decades of polishing the council furniture with his bottom . |
| 60 | Chalker said , however , that the Sudanese government was evading its responsibilities in the organization of the relief operation . |