Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 2 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 3 | It appeared that Princess Anne was not one of her admirers , and though Princess Anne 's views were at this time usually rather criticised this was something for the press to get its teeth into . |
| 4 | This was something like the art the Progressive era needed . |
| 5 | This was one for the book . |
| 6 | This was one about the three crooks from London who dressed up in African tribal costumes and tricked jewellers into parting with gear worth £250,000 in exchange for boxes containing carrots and potatoes . |
| 7 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but this was nothing to the delighted grandfather . |
| 8 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 9 | There were also many more limited ventures such as Pearson 's Fresh Air Fund , established in 1896 by Arthur Pearson , the founder of The Daily Express , to provide country holidays for city children , and this was itself among the inspirations for the fresh air philosophies of Baden-Powell 's Boy Scouts launched in 1908 . |
| 10 | So how much were they at the Swan 's then ? |
| 11 | Owen could hardly bear to look at her , so much was she at the mercy of the music , plunging with it into pits of despair , rising with it to heights of exaltation that were almost unbearable . |
| 12 | Her feet and hands were so cold they did n't seem to belong to her , but that was nothing to the coldness inside . |
| 13 | But that was nothing to the agony of never seeing him again , her heart replied despairingly . |
| 14 | That was something at the time that I felt I did n't really need myself . |
| 15 | I thought that was him on the photo , was it ? |
| 16 | That was him on the door . |
| 17 | thought that was him in the car but it was n't cos |
| 18 | That was one for the book . |
| 19 | Well , that was one for the album : the ex-FAKINTIL sapper together with the malai Colonel 's wife , half-naked in her boudoir . |
| 20 | if that was it on the agenda that I miss because of being so early bit in the wrong place |
| 21 | Neither was it beyond the bounds of probability that a man of eighty-three had been confused about the time . |
| 22 | Neither was it within the second type of loss above , because the sellers were unaware of the buyers ' chance of obtaining those lucrative contracts . |