Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 He felt tired , slightly drunk and frightened ; if an assassin was hunting him then the dark runnels of Edinburgh at night would only provide fresh opportunities .
2 Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path .
3 Vincent 's conscience was telling him precisely the opposite , and at the top of its voice .
4 And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank .
5 Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere .
6 This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet .
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