Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A PAIR of badger baiters were convicted yesterday with the help of the man behind several BBC TV wildlife documentaries . |
| 32 | ‘ Some of the other kids were going down to the Ash Grove later , ’ she complained . |
| 33 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 34 | Computers were used extensively during the car 's development , in a successful attempt to make the AX 220lb lighter than the class average . |
| 35 | Most of their funds were lent back to the personal sector . |
| 36 | Colombo radio reported on Oct. 17 that the LTTE had recently been admitting , at public meetings in its remaining Jaffna stronghold , that the organization was disintegrating , foreign funds were drying up after the recent military reverses , and Tamil youths were refusing to join its guerrillas . |
| 37 | But , after a glorious day 's exploring , by the time we turned for home the weather had become very wild , and as we approached the first barrier , waves were breaking fiercely over the road . |
| 38 | It has been suggested that the three previous waves were associated respectively with the steam engine , the railways , and then electric power and the automobile . |
| 39 | RECRUITS were bused in to the strike-hit Timex factory in Dundee yesterday , replacements for some of the 300 workers sacked during the dispute . |
| 40 | All virological parameters were determined centrally at the Rotterdam hepatitis laboratory . |
| 41 | ‘ Their pictures were spread all over the news bulletins . |
| 42 | The fragments were excreted spontaneously through the ductus choledochus and the cholecystitis was cured by antibiotic treatment . |
| 43 | During July 1690 , demonstrating the French command of the Narrow Seas , small landing parties were put ashore on the Sussex coast to put up posters urging local residents , and especially army and navy officers , to support their former king , a somewhat pointless propaganda exercise , but a much more serious incursion followed . |
| 44 | Children were out playing in the schoolyards , shouting and enjoying the sunshine ; shops were closed up for the dinner hour . |
| 45 | Can you co up again if you can co I 'm going back to The reason being that the approach to the business was one of quality and a large amount of hand-finishing , and , the leathers were aimed mainly at the , saddlery and leather goods trade and also only at the very top end of the shoe trade . |
| 46 | The original Milnes four wheeled cars were now getting very decrepit and it was found that the nine bogie cars would be quite sufficient to provide the normal service between West Croydon and Mitcham , so a number of Milnes cars were stored away in the back parts of the other two depôts . |
| 47 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 48 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 49 | Thirty parked cars were swallowed up as the fireball in Lochmallen Terrace , Sunderland , sent a huge plume of smoke over the city . |
| 50 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |
| 51 | Cars were parked all along the grass verge outside the church . |
| 52 | And seven new Peugeot cars were driven off from the Central African Motor Services : two were never found . |
| 53 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 54 | Somehow , he had moved closer , and their thighs were pressed together on the wooden seat . |
| 55 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 56 | It got to the point that some of the burgers were served straight from the freezer , raw ! |
| 57 | The awards for last year 's performances were handed out at the club 's dinner/dance . |
| 58 | More trade-union sponsored Labour candidates were put forward in the 1929 General Election as unions recognized the failure of industrial action . |
| 59 | Subjects were tested individually in the driving simulator . |
| 60 | Subjects were tested individually in the driving simulator . |