Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was practically up at the top as well , I was really pissed off , just sitting there for like , for two hours , whilst my dad went all the way down to the bottom of this thing . |
| 2 | ‘ Before the accident I was right up with the leaders , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 4 | Much to my surprise I was soon out on the water like a regular Captain Pugwash . |
| 5 | But the emergency window on the left opened quite easily and I was soon out with the thought that a safe landing is one you can walk away from . |
| 6 | I was never in on the joke , whatever it was . |
| 7 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 8 | But they decided to keep me under observation until I was safely out of the third month . |
| 9 | She said I should pay her more attention , I was always round at the Club with my drinking mates . |
| 10 | I was hardly out of the first team squad last season but was substitute just once . ’ |
| 11 | She made her way across the factory floor and it was when she was nearly back at the occupational health centre that she heard a whistle . |
| 12 | But he held a strong attraction for the the Duchess — and by now she was totally out of the Palace 's control . |
| 13 | She was always on about the amount of tea he drank . |
| 14 | They might want him or her to have a key , you know and er and just ran the keys up on a thing like that , you know what I mean , they was never out of the person 's possession . |
| 15 | I mean it was right up to the wall , and the we 'd have bothered . |
| 16 | er , and if you , not quite as short as you did last time , you see when you combed it up last time it was right up to the top just a little bit |
| 17 | and there was this dump truck sort of about two foot out , he 'd obviously changed his mind and sort of had er stopped , had a Reliant Regal , you know a Reliant Regal it was right up to the windscreen and there was a pile of glass in , you know everywhere it was |
| 18 | It was completely out of the blue . |
| 19 | ‘ It was completely out of the blue . |
| 20 | It had the additional advantage that it was well out of the way of prying headquarters staff and was being established as a forward base for the LRDG . |
| 21 | It was just out of the blue really . |
| 22 | It sounded as if it was somewhere up in the farm buildings . |
| 23 | It was inconveniently out of the way if you did n't have your own transport . |
| 24 | It was primarily up to the women to devise strategies for saving money , especially within spheres of expenditure that they both managed and controlled . |
| 25 | Jenny begged him every day to change his mind , but he was a busy man and declared that it was quite out of the question and he wished to goodness Miss Clinton had never mentioned the subject of Brownies ! |
| 26 | ‘ I told him that whilst he was dating my own sister it was quite out of the question . |
| 27 | It was then up to the industry 's writers to find amusing and diverting ways to explore these important questions , sustain morale and present an image of British strength to the outside world . |
| 28 | Indeed as early as April 1944 the US secretary of war , Henry Stimson , argued that it was now up to the " virile " Americans to defeat the Axis . |
| 29 | Mr Hunsley said it was now up to the AA to find other duty solicitors . |
| 30 | Mr Hunsley said it was now up to the AA to find other duty solicitors . |