Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were reading it down the tape and I had to tape it all . |
| 2 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 3 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 4 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
| 5 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |