Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 3 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 4 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 5 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 6 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 7 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 8 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 9 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 10 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 11 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 12 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |
| 13 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 14 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 15 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |
| 16 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 17 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 18 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 19 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 20 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 21 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |
| 22 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 23 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 24 | This body was to turn itself into the Labour Party in 1906 . |
| 25 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |
| 26 | The registrar was regarding me over the top of his spectacles and trying not to look at his watch . |
| 27 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 28 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 29 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 30 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |