Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 2 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 3 | Procles was using his wits in the sort of intellectual games — rationalistic interpretations of myths , comparisons of popular military leaders — which appealed to the Greek and Roman public . |
| 4 | I slept badly and had a dream that was to confirm my fears about the ghost . |
| 5 | Vass was gathering their bags from the car boot and leading Lisa and a wide-eyed Emily across a courtyard to the front door of the house . |
| 6 | In September 1692 he produced a Whiggish Jacobite tract in which he rehearsed all the traditional charges against William ( adding to the list the recent massacre at Glencoe ) , and argued that " If it was to preserve our Liberties from the insults of King James , we placed the Prince upon the Throne , we have certainly either mistaken the Disease or the Cure " . |
| 7 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
| 8 | Cecilia found she had clenched her fists and was driving her nails into the palms of her hands . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the Conservative Party was regrouping its forces after the defeat of 1945 , building up better-organised and larger constituency parties and reorganising its ideology . |
| 10 | Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared , knife poised over his head . |
| 11 | I was saving my energies for the return journey . |
| 12 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 13 | She had sat up and was pulling her fingers through the tangled forest . |
| 14 | Now all he had to do was convince his colleagues in the company of the fact . |
| 15 | Amanda Fergusson was directing her field-glasses at the Monastery of Saint James , and her face bore an expression of prim pleasure which shocked her companion . |
| 16 | Those of the first two Edwards were fought against enemies whose common aim was to rid their countries of the English aggressor , but whose methods of doing so differed . |
| 17 | He was gritting his teeth against the pain , keeping it at bay while he studied the stump , the severed hand . |
| 18 | Jeremiah was wearing his pin-stripes with the seat shiny from decades of polishing the council furniture with his bottom . |
| 19 | Chalker said , however , that the Sudanese government was evading its responsibilities in the organization of the relief operation . |
| 20 | Sylvia realised it was to fill their bladders for the games to come . |
| 21 | She was doing her teeth in the bathroom . |
| 22 | The objective of the study was to determine which aspects of the UK government 's implementation of the Less Favoured Areas Directive are responsible for the agriculture/nature conservation conflict and to recommend changes aimed at retaining a predominantly agricultural land use in the uplands without further loss and degradation of its unique nature conservation interest . |
| 23 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 24 | According to the report , a commission in charge of the negotiations with political parties , chaired by Finance Minister Enoch Ruhigira , was focusing its discussions on the distribution of Cabinet posts , including that of prime minister , between political parties . |
| 25 | He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars , the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars , past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower , past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 . |
| 26 | Besides , living as she now was in a small house on top of two other people , and Dr Neil 's surgery boy , and seeing at close hand the wretched people who frequented his surgery , was giving her insights into the motivations and behaviour of the people around her because she had to consider them , whereas always before , in the past , other people had been compelled to consider her . |
| 27 | It is particularly interesting in the way that it counters the widely held view that Los Alamos was dragging its feet over the development of the Super even after the presidential directive in early 1950 for a crash programme towards producing a hydrogen weapon . |
| 28 | More 's eloquence has set the tone for much historical writing on the subject , but while one should not deny that enclosures created a good deal of suffering , one should also remember that More was exaggerating his points for the sake of effect . |
| 29 | I was asked my views on the reshuffle . |
| 30 | One spring-driven second later she 'd cut herself free , and two seconds after that she was showing her heels at the side door . |