Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 2 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 3 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 4 | The only corners I knew were in the playground where boys tried to fumble in my knickers , and street corners where the winds met head-on . |
| 5 | In particular the sharpened leading-notes ( a feature of some of his other editions ) are in this small space especially intrusive and seem stylistically odd , leading to a situation in the Credo where the plainchant itself has to be altered to accommodate the harmony , which I understood was against the commonly-accepted rules of musica ficta . |
| 6 | Well I can remember when I went Was in the water at the start , there was You could see a lot of boats coming in alongside the platform . |
| 7 | The only place I hesitated was over the hallway . |
| 8 | The other piece of extra-curricular casting I did was of the young boy playing the grandson — ‘ voice like an angel ’ — Oliver . |
| 9 | ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’ |
| 10 | The only difficulties I had was in the last 24 hours when the steering gave me problems . ’ |
| 11 | The first Americans she observed were on the boat and she wrote , ‘ they laughed at the poor immigrants lying on the deck in their wretched clothes … without the least sign of sympathy . ’ |
| 12 | The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her . |
| 13 | The one battle she lost was over the dog , Hector . |
| 14 | The turquoise dress she wore was of the kind of stretch cotton which showed up any figure fault and which in this instance merely demonstrated the perfection of her body . |
| 15 | A house called Les Hiboux , sited in the département of the Dordogne , which she knew was in the south-west , near a community called Issigeac . |
| 16 | Was that the ar was that the area that you felt was of the most of er benefit to you ? |
| 17 | She soon decided that the house was the most beautiful place she had ever seen , and though she had little experience of antique furniture or fine art works she immediately recognised that all the things she saw were of the highest quality . |
| 18 | You say that the footprints you saw were on the path and not on the grass ? ’ |
| 19 | And in fact I found from playing with Eric , that it was much more fun to just turn up and the first playing you did was to the audience . |
| 20 | But I think the other incredibly important thing that you said was about the number of boys here from public schools as well and I think that |
| 21 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 22 | It was er , you know , everything you wanted was from the Co-op , you see . |
| 23 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 24 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 25 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 26 | Everything we did was of the very lightest weight however heavy the humour . |
| 27 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 28 | We were all working flat out and the only break we had was on the second Sunday when Isvik was on the slip and the Yard closed . |
| 29 | Yes , they 're just putting , well th th most erm useful erm conversation we had was with the , the ophthalmologist , she was , she was superb erm and advised us to get it done as soon as possible . |
| 30 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |