Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she would be angry if , by trying to impose responsibility on her daughter by giving her the vote , we were also taking from her the only comfort which she has , namely that when she is older she will change all that . |
| 2 | Circular temples were also built of which the Pantheon is the best known representative ( 122–124 ) . |
| 3 | His move to the New Forest and the forest itself were vividly described in his The Book of Gorley ( 1910 ) . |
| 4 | A compromise was eventually negotiated in which the space to the west of the building , originally planned as a garden , was devoted instead to a car park and to compensate for this loss of amenity , the Historic Buildings Council then agreed to pay for the provision of the jetty and roof garden . |
| 5 | ‘ I was only thinking about you the other day , David , ’ said his grandmother , settling herself in a high-backed chair , her feet planted firmly on the floral Axminster carpet . |
| 6 | The epilogue to this evening 's survival devotions was , strange as it may seem , exactly as I should have expected it to turn out , I do not remember when I missed — or at what stage — my flight engineer , but when I returned to camp and was literally wallowing in what the High Master at Command had to say to me . |
| 7 | She had hoped for Pascoe 's sake that the MacQuillan affair would fade from his mind , but perhaps his memory was already concealing from him the truth about the killing . |
| 8 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 9 | The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying , Masklin had noticed . |
| 10 | He was not looking at what the girl was doing with the match . |
| 11 | They drew no distinction between what the industry needed and what it wanted , with the result that government policy was usually determined by what the foreign mining companies asked for ’ . |
| 12 | The pattern was clearly set by which the extension of secondary education , because it was free , would increase the pressure effect of the exam whatever form it took . |
| 13 | In 1987 , when Tony Heginbottom revived the tradition at Cragg Vale Spa near Hebden Bridge , I was there to taste for myself the chalybeate water . |
| 14 | According to salacious press reports he was unfairly implicated in what the tabloids refer to as ‘ a three-in-the-bed ’ scandal . |