Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 32 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 33 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 34 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 35 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 36 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 37 | If the bird were dashing itself against the bars , feathers flying , then the similarities to human suffering would arouse impulses to assist , even to release it , like the giraffe . |
| 38 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 39 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 40 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 41 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 42 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 43 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
| 44 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 45 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 46 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 47 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 48 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 49 | Yet Chapman saw that the future of English football ultimately depended on the young , and he was particularly concerned to win youngsters over to soccer and away from rugby , a concern heightened by the fact that his two sow , Ken and Bruce , were distinguishing themselves in the rugby code . |
| 50 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 51 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 52 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 53 | ‘ They were doing everything by the book . |
| 54 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 55 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 56 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 57 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 58 | Both of us were giving ourselves in the service of a third party . |
| 59 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 60 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |