Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were with him the night he died ? ’ |
| 2 | Some recent government policy has been directed to certain inner-city areas as though these areas were in themselves the cause of poverty and deprivation . |
| 3 | ‘ Naturally , I would prefer McCoist to play because if we were without him the Maltese coach , Philip Psaila , would be entitled to rub his hands in delight . ’ |
| 4 | And it seemed to her that that broken line , I know not , oh , I know not " , expressed a level of passion as high as any the English language could achieve ; the interjection and the repetition and the archaic inversion were to her the exhaled breath of yearning . |
| 5 | It is clearly inconsistent for one who calls Jesus " Lord " to think lightly of those scriptures which were to him the supreme revelation of God . |
| 6 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |
| 7 | C. Most of the pits sunk about a hundred years ago were to mine the coal which was near the surface , within about 20 fathoms ( 40 m ) depth or so . |
| 8 | He knew beforehand that on April 8 the Royal Navy were to mine the fjords off Narvik , in neutral Norway 's territorial waters , and he was one of the first to learn of Germany 's devastating response , a full-scale invasion the next day . |
| 9 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 10 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 11 | Tait , with William Thomson , had published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867 which became a standard advanced textbook because it treated physics from the point of view of conservation of energy — fathering the doctrine , as became two Cambridge men , upon Newton : the ‘ return to Newton ’ was for them the key to modernity . |
| 12 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 13 | This was for him the beginning of an independent ‘ second career ’ after leaving the army . |
| 14 | That was his happiness , to talk to a captured ear was for him the thrill of seeing the Commandant 's office roofless and destroyed . |
| 15 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 16 | Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other . |
| 17 | The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost . |
| 18 | But what was , for the archaeologist the end of a job , was for me the beginning . |
| 19 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 20 | The thought of going home was for her the final impossibility , but she could not see any satisfactory way of avoiding it . |
| 21 | In the same month , in what was for her the last term of her formal education , Alix became engaged to Sebastian Manning . |
| 22 | Finally , as if rewarding us for our efforts , Yuri provided us with what was for us the highlight of the day — an impromptu performance ( to a disco beat ) which left us in no doubt at all as to why this tall , handsome athlete is Russia 's leading ballet super-Tsar ! |
| 23 | I sent my rent book off as proof of the fact that I was of what the rent was |
| 24 | sort of feel you know , I mean , I 've known people where , I mean , it was like us the day we moved in here |
| 25 | The longer he was with her the more her attraction increased for him . |
| 26 | Of course — I was with her the day her baby was born . |
| 27 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
| 28 | and he said for tonight and she said well she said I never felt so embarrassed she said I did n't know where to put myself she said and the girl that was with her the other demonstrator |
| 29 | ‘ I was with him the other night and some of the things he was saying , I know that if he found out about us … ’ |
| 30 | Pat was with him the day a young woman approached him exceedingly politely while he was enjoying his veal — in one of his favourite Italian restaurants , Biagis , he would go for a filleted sole — and asked for his autograph . |