Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were not having anybody in the mine , with a watch , who could let people know exactly what the time was , and in other words , create a situation where the men might go home before they 'd completed this particular task . |
| 2 | Half the subjects were given this information in advance but the other half were not told anything about the subject matter of the passage . |
| 3 | The films used in this study were , however , relatively short and it was clear that subjects were not describing anything like the total amount of information that was available . |
| 4 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 5 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 6 | Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits . |
| 7 | We were once promised something of the sort from Anna Ford back at ITN , but it never happened . |
| 8 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 9 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 10 | They were out to get me from the start . |
| 11 | ‘ When I left my number at your office , I said that you were n't to call me during the day . |
| 12 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 13 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
| 14 | And he could have , he could have , because , then we were importing about three quarters of our food from overseas , there was depression all the time in the thirties , and we were n't growing anything near the amount of food that we needed . |
| 15 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 16 | Even when they were nt winning anything except the occasional FA Cup there was hype . |
| 17 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 18 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 19 | It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit . |
| 20 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 21 | A speechreader was naturally anticipating something about the price of leather , the usefulness of gumboots — possibly how one hops round the room on one leg pulling them off and so on . |
| 22 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 23 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 24 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 25 | But Keith was already pushing her into the living-room , bubbling with what he had to say . |
| 26 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 27 | But he was already leading her to the stairs . |
| 28 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 29 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 30 | And I suppose all that Oxfam reject rubbish was just to throw me off the scent ? ’ |