Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appeared difficult for the dollar to be devalued since the exchange values of all other currencies were tied to it and the dollar itself was tied to gold . |
| 2 | All meetings were boring to him unless the participants could talk in depth and unless the debate was by a small enough number of people for personal friendships to be fostered . |
| 3 | All the ward visitors were staring at me and the other nurses looked over in disbelief . |
| 4 | Their three elder girls were standing beside her and the baby , and Fantina was darting around them . |
| 5 | ‘ You say no shots were fired by you or the burglars , Mrs Ward ? ’ the policeman enquired again , checking his notepad . |
| 6 | I ask whether this money too , which was given to him after the will was made , is understood to be included in the legacy . |
| 7 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |
| 8 | Cheshire police said that message was relayed to them as the bombs exploded in Warrington 's Bridge Street at about 12.25pm . |
| 9 | ‘ I was attracted to it because the script made me laugh and it 's a splendid play . |
| 10 | The lens of the machine was weaving above me and the clatter of new and used plates was endless . |
| 11 | The item went well , and it was reported to me that the celebrity was very pleased with my contribution . |
| 12 | Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about … |
| 13 | So anyway yesterday afternoon I was checking through it when the phone went again to ask about the washing machine and I was looking through the paper to see whether , and they 'd put it in this week ! |
| 14 | Even so , by the time he finally put down his wooden weapon and rebuckled his sword belt , his recently healed collarbone was shouting at him and the older injuries over his body joined in . |
| 15 | A bus was passing between him and the parked vehicle , and he hesitated … |
| 16 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 17 | Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me |
| 18 | Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me . |
| 19 | Whether she was looking at me or the moon — who knows ? |
| 20 | ‘ Friends close to me probably saw what was written about me and the criticism I took from every angle . |
| 21 | The sweat was pouring from him when the ultimate moment arrived . |
| 22 | A piece of rope was tied to it but the knot was difficult to undo and , after fiddling with it for what felt like hours , he still could n't pry it loose . |
| 23 | Mr Bond was deemed to be insolvent at the time the bankruptcy judgment was entered against him and the bankruptcy notice was served — ‘ about three weeks ago ’ — but Mr Bond may have been insolvent before that time . |
| 24 | Philippa , 41 , said : ‘ One minute Rod was joking about it and the next he was acting strangely . ’ |
| 25 | John ran up with his father 's riding whip , and the door was slammed on him and the rest . |
| 26 | She manoeuvred herself so she was crouched between him and the rocks , and taking his long hard knob by the root she began waving it under her nose like a conductor 's baton . |
| 27 | Laura was not in a great hurry to find a new designer if only because it was dawning on her that the company needed more of a skilled copier than an original artist . |
| 28 | Diana was chatting to him when the telephone rang . |
| 29 | Unprepared for the circumstances which he would encounter he was assured by them that the Vietminh would not resist and that Cédile , the French Commissioner in the South , had tight control of his forces . |
| 30 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |