Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 32 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 33 | Mounted officers called ‘ rangers ’ were appointed to drive back into the forest deer which had strayed into the purlieus . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Subjects were asked to look either to the left or to the right while choosing the odd one out from among three Hebrew words . |
| 36 | Erm you were asked to look carefully at the music of the first two bars then write the music of bar three . |
| 37 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 38 | If what Tillich says of the Buddhist concept of compassion were taken to apply also to the Hindu concept of compassion , then his assessment is equally inaccurate in that context . |
| 39 | Several Perks were fighting to get out of the crack . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Apparently he thought that she and Mitch would get into no end of mischief if they were allowed to sit together in the back . |
| 42 | For years the yield from customs had been declining , in part because the rates were allowed to lag well behind the rise in prices , in part because of bad management . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Crushed , however , at the Lechfeld near Augsburg in 955 by Otto I , they were forced to turn inwards to the settlement of the Danubian plain . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Their enemies drove them out arid they were forced to live down in the marshes of Kelfazin . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | While in former years parents were encouraged to stay together for the sake of their children , more recently emphasis has been put on the damage done to children by parents who do stay married but are in constant conflict . |
| 51 | Other children were left to wander home in the dark . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 57 | 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 ? |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | It rained solidly every single day in fact , and it did n't stop as we were queuing to drive on to the ferry . |
| 60 | As there was little justification for the lengths to which these itinerant justices went , when a vigorous protest was made to the king he promptly issued a writ ordering them to refrain from hearing testamentary , matrimonial and moral causes ; these matters were confirmed to fall exclusively within the competence of the church courts . |