Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 2 | To write a feature story on the Inaugural First Flight it was arranged for me to join the westbound plane at Moose Jaw and telegraph back the story from Calgary . |
| 3 | ‘ I was resigned to him missing the return leg , but he has recovered remarkably quickly . |
| 4 | The bread supplied by Benjamin Maulden was ‘ very indifferently baked ’ and the house surgeon was to write to him expressing the Board 's dissatisfaction — which was extended to a Mr. Bentham , whose bread was found to be underweight . |
| 5 | Director Ken Loach was looking for someone to play the mother in his award-winning film Kes . |
| 6 | The same could be said for Adrian Maguire who got his big chance when Martin Pipe was looking for someone to ride the former Scott-trained Omerta in the Cheltenham Kim Muir in 1991 and Homer recommended Maguire who at that time was unknown outside the point-to-point field . |
| 7 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 8 | At a committee dinner held in his honour the day following his 90th birthday , Percy was told that the committee would like him to accept the role of branch president , and a commemorative plaque was presented to him to mark the occasion . |
| 9 | And she was silenced as one watching the rerun of an all too familiar catastrophe beyond change . |
| 10 | Like Paris himself , Ryder was deciding to whom to give the apple . |
| 11 | I was waiting for somebody to pass the creme caramel out of the fridge . |
| 12 | When they returned , they discovered that the main body of men had already flown out and that a party of drivers under Scratchley was waiting for them to join the vehicle convoy south through the Great Sand Sea . |
| 13 | He was waiting for her to open the conversation , but his manner was so cold and distant that she found it difficult to begin . |
| 14 | Following on from our silver award in 1991 , we were very pleased that our excellent safety record in 1992 was recognised by our achieving the RoSPA gold award which was presented in May of this year . |
| 15 | The Production Code Administration that was set under him to put the code into practice became one of the most influential bodies of the field of social mores , and the regulations themselves became dubbed the ‘ Hays ’ Code , . |
| 16 | He bent briefly to brush her lips , then he was reaching behind her to turn the handle of her bedroom door . |
| 17 | When it was chopped down it became the Amazon , its branches the many tributaries . |
| 18 | Daniel son of Nicholas of Newcastle , husband of one of the co-heiresses , was appointed by them to perform the duties of Forest warden until he was succeeded in 1226 by Thomas of Stratton , husband of another co-heiress . |
| 19 | Yes er but I do n't think he knew what I did , I think he thought I used to take the boiling water upstairs you see int he bedroom and er I think he just thought I was sitting on it to open the womb . |
| 20 | Although Harold Wilson did not equate with Bevan in personal terms — in colour or in rhetoric — he too can feel pleased that the condemnation that in many quarters was directed at him demonstrated the genuine respect for his qualities that his adversaries feared . |
| 21 | This suggests that containers of food were placed in the cooking-holes and that hot ash was piled around them to cook the contents , which sometimes boiled over or fell into the ash , leading to carbonization and preservation . |
| 22 | ‘ As you can see , I 've just come out of the bath , ’ Shae said , striving to remain polite , when every instinct in her soul was screaming at her to send the actress running with her tail between her legs . |
| 23 | I was sent with him to keep the accounts . |