Example sentences of "the [noun sg] was [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 2 | So , er , what the description was there by the way , it 's not meant to be a description of the person . |
| 3 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 4 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 5 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 6 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 7 | Er members will recall that the potential savings that might from the original was something in the order of eight to nine hundred thousand pounds and of course the majority of those er present the saving will be policy will be consideration . |
| 8 | Ignoring his dig , she decided that if the inside was anything like the outside she could bear to wait . |
| 9 | The slave was nothing in the eyes of the law . |
| 10 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |