Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 2 | Once I was out of the cab I ran and ran , and lost her ; she wo n't know where to look , the pavements are covered with footmarks . |
| 3 | In essence Ward J. found that the physical and mental state of Miss T. on the Sunday afternoon and evening were such that , although she was undoubtedly under the influence of her mother , she was capable of reaching and did reach a decision as to her own treatment . |
| 4 | It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end . |
| 5 | She 'd get a move on once she was up from the harbour . |
| 6 | But a cool , almost unnatural calm had hit her once she was back in the bustle of the city . |
| 7 | But the simple mix of ring roads , precincts and a general improvement in the design of road junctions , and an adherence to standard highway widths , building lines and sight-lines did not prove adequate for long , although it was not until the 1960s that the opportunities for a radical revision of policy and method were presented . |
| 8 | It 's all a far cry from June 1987 when Margaret Thatcher was returned to power with a handsome majority of 101 seats , although it was down on the 1983 win . |
| 9 | By the time that Israel became part of the Roman empire , the idea was already widespread among the various religious sects that the ‘ End of the World ’ was at hand , although it was only for the Essenes of Qumran that this belief assumed a definite form ; that , whereas the First Judgement at the time of Noah had been destruction by water , the Last Judgement would be destruction by fire . |
| 10 | He can be seen as representative of the pre-war analysis of social problem in biological , hereditarian terms although he was firmly on the dominant environmentalist wing of the Eugenics Society itself . |
| 11 | Gennady Voronov , another Politburo member of 1964 , says that the plot was in progress for a year , although he was not in the know . |
| 12 | He was trying to read a newspaper , but although he was out of the wind the pages kept on fluttering . |
| 13 | The challenge — more urgent now than it was even in the cold war — is to think differently and to act otherwise . |
| 14 | Hardly had he returned to Malaya in 1935 than he was again on the upward ladder : in 1937 in the conventional testing ground of an African secretariat , Lagos , followed in 1939 by promotion to the difficult post of chief secretary of troubled Palestine . |
| 15 | Marian Woronin pulled up after thirty metres of his heat with a torn leg muscle , so he was out of the Championships . |
| 16 | He did n't seem in any hurry : because Louis was no longer there , Trent presumed , and because his cocaine habit demanded a goodly supply ready cut ; preparing more would be difficult once he was out in the rain . |
| 17 | I told him that I was going to come forward er and handcuff him and then , then something along the lines of er not to move er and then once he was down on the floor , erm I holstered the weapon into my own holster . |
| 18 | He slipped on a rigid gold bracelet once he was back in the dressing room and Dominic pulled a curtain clear of a radiator to get more heat into the place . |
| 19 | All in honour of the Macmillan Nurses , so it was probably about the most worthwhile thing I have done since becoming an MP . |
| 20 | They were not valuable , so it was out of the question for him to have stolen them . |
| 21 | The short pole was now out of the question so it was out on the long pole . |
| 22 | Once it was out of the way , he sent across the correspondent , David Blundy . |
| 23 | But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer . |
| 24 | I said he 'd probably have the curtains drawn and the place would smell of joss-sticks , but if she behaved as if nothing was out of the ordinary , all would be fine . |
| 25 | Well , she did behave as if nothing was out of the ordinary , and I began to suspect that Oliver was a little displeased . |
| 26 | I must of been on holiday or something , cos tha , that 's the only reason I would n't of gone , if I , if I was n't in the country . |
| 27 | The second , far more important lesson , I did n't learn until I was downstairs at the desk paying the actual bill : if you can get away with 50 quid for a bottle of anything in Sweden , take it . |
| 28 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 29 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 30 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |