Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [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 | ‘ You say no shots were fired by you or the burglars , Mrs Ward ? ’ the policeman enquired again , checking his notepad . |
| 3 | I ask whether this money too , which was given to him after the will was made , is understood to be included in the legacy . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Cheshire police said that message was relayed to them as the bombs exploded in Warrington 's Bridge Street at about 12.25pm . |
| 6 | ‘ I was attracted to it because the script made me laugh and it 's a splendid play . |
| 7 | The item went well , and it was reported to me that the celebrity was very pleased with my contribution . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Friends close to me probably saw what was written about me and the criticism I took from every angle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | John ran up with his father 's riding whip , and the door was slammed on him and the rest . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |