Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Co was up on the Tuesday you had to have it paid for the Saturday , at least . |
| 2 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 3 | Yeah I mean me I it may be inappropriate at this moment in time to say we will do it now because of obvious reasons but prior to the recession it was an ongoing thing that the the board were in through the general manager were actually writing to many companies . |
| 4 | There was relief that the rise was out of the way and substantial enough to keep further advance at bay . |
| 5 | The midwife was back with the blanket . |
| 6 | Health Minister Brian Mawhinney , speaking at Stoke Mandeville Hospital he said the decision was down to the doctors . |
| 7 | Even when the story was out of the national news , the regional media , now well connected to useful sources , kept it rolling . |
| 8 | Then , just over a year later , the story was back in the headlines again . |
| 9 | Looking at the tangle of bushes on either side , she soon realised that to make a thorough search of the undergrowth was out of the question . |
| 10 | I mean , you know , when I was student at L S E , you know , the front of the , of the demonstration was down at the Law Courts , the back was still in , at , at er , Oxford Street , or something , you know . |
| 11 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 12 | I had heard rumours that Jack the Ripper was about in the night , but that did n't stop me launching into the fog . |
| 13 | When eight artists relied to : ‘ Why have there been no great women artists ? ’ in Art News in January 1971 ( including Elaine de Kooning , Rosemarie Castoro , Lynda Benglis , Sleanor Antin ) the cat was out of the bag in the United States . |
| 14 | To try to leave the surface of the planet was out of the question . |
| 15 | The flood was up to the top of the stove already , and as the gas went out the saucepan went afloat and he was scalded by a stream of boiling water that mixed with the cold . |
| 16 | The edition was out on the |
| 17 | But then Jimmy Magilton fired the United midfield machine and the match was back in the boiler when John Durnin scored a brilliant equaliser . |
| 18 | He explained the delay was down to the French court system being ‘ overburdened ’ . |
| 19 | Report author Jill Krutick said that in the meantime the race was on among the large hotel chains to achieve a pan-European presence with branded hotel products . |
| 20 | This proposal to establish a council which would in effect supervise the government of the realm while the king was overseas was the clearest echo of the Ordinances , though with the crucial difference that it was to function only as long as the king was out of the realm : it was not the intention of the commons to subject the king permanently to conciliar restraint . |
| 21 | They again reached , but did not capture , Vienna under Mehemet IV , in 1683 , but by 1791 the border was back to the Sava-Danube line . |
| 22 | An independent structure for the organisation was out of the question . |
| 23 | In May the DHAC was back at the Guildhall , where Matt O'Leary told the corporation that its members ‘ filled him with nauseation ’ . |
| 24 | The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay . |
| 25 | The television was on in the living room . |
| 26 | All the while the cigarette was in between the doors , being carried along with them to Swiss Cottage . |
| 27 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 28 | The forwards ' support of the ball-carrier was out of the top drawer . |
| 29 | When you last called in the professionals to repair your washing machine or fix the car , how confident were you that the mechanic was up to the job ? |
| 30 | In the next few days the Governor was out among the people , and newspaper reports spoke of ‘ the friendliest reception everywhere ’ . |