Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weeping females were nothing out of the ordinary for him . |
| 2 | Hanging leaders were nothing out of the ordinary , and the Old Thunderer even confessed itself vexed by the ‘ overmagnanimous spirit of British law , which always presumes a man innocent until he is proven guilty ’ . |
| 3 | Were you up at the garage ? |
| 4 | So what time were you up in the morning then ? |
| 5 | What time were you up in the mornings ? |
| 6 | Walker to rock-climber — ‘ So , were you out on the hill today ? ’ |
| 7 | Were you out in the playground in the wind ? |
| 8 | " The boy ; they were n't there when we went in nor were they around on the two occasions I checked the street , not were they there when I accompanied the doctor to the cab . " |
| 9 | Fortunately the holidays had begun and there was no-one about at the time . |
| 10 | There was no-one out in the street and I hurried to my car . |
| 11 | There was nothing out of the ordinary here , just the usual chairs and trays of instruments and contraptions of tubes and clamps and wires . |
| 12 | He searched the scattered trees that fringed the forest in case an injured rider had struggled to cover , but there was nothing out of the ordinary to be seen . |
| 13 | To her it was nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 14 | There was nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 15 | There was nobody out in the street looking suspicious . |
| 16 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |
| 17 | And a there was a domestic one in each group there was one along near the baths in among the thirteen , and there was another white one near Old Gate Bridge . |
| 18 | There was one out in the kitchen . |
| 19 | Making up her mind , she said fiercely , ‘ It was him up at the manor . |
| 20 | While he was careful not to give the impression to the Beavis family that his work was anything out of the ordinary , he nevertheless made sure it was not open to even the most casual glance . |
| 21 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 22 | US Cup press officer Jim Trecker says : ‘ If you did n't know the story , you would n't think it was anything out of the ordinary , it looks just like a plain grass field . |