Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then waited for the wasps to leave on bee-hunting expeditions , and while they were away he moved the cones a yard or so away from the entrances ( Figure 4.4 ) . |
| 2 | Once the exams were over I had the whole summer free in front of me and a host of new friends to pass it with the idea made me extremely happy . |
| 3 | And though the leaves were still I heard the wind |
| 4 | While we were there we toured the highlands , where the repression has been most concentrated , and met relatives of massacre victims and the widows of the ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 5 | Koppes comments on the launch of the Russian Sputnik : ‘ JPL personnel could remember years later where they were when they heard the news , what they first thought , and what they did . ’ |
| 6 | Although the England Under-19s , touring Pakistan last winter , had some cause to question just how young their opponents were when they discovered the ease with which birth certificates could be bought locally for just £2 . |
| 7 | Evidence shows that expected productivity in unit labour costs of British industry are more competitive now than they were when we entered the ERM . |
| 8 | The Frames were where they grew the special items ; strawberries and lychees , pineapples and oranges , grapes and peaches , cherries and almonds , pears and melons . |
| 9 | I did n't find out he was the artist who 'd done all of the paintings until the end of the conversation and that was basically what ended the conversation : I just ran off ! |
| 10 | As soon as school was over I took the train from Hammersmith to Whitechapel , then continued the rest of the journey on foot to Charlie 's home . |
| 11 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 12 | In Time Was Away he increased the number of colours used from three to four and began handling the separations with far greater elasticity and freedom . |
| 13 | Chapter 3 provides information on a variety of religious faiths , and it was here I found the text least satisfactory . |
| 14 | Erm however absolute egalitarianism showed that it could n't actually work in practice because there was n't they underestimated the amount of land which , that could be redistributed and you had leftist and rightist deviations where which meant that how that industry and commerce was being threatened and landlords were just being indiscriminately killed . |
| 15 | ‘ It was n't me put the charge on the boat ! ’ the nervous man cried out . |
| 16 | Was n't it called the Land of Israel ? |
| 17 | You took the ferry at Dalmeny and then used the horses from the royal stables at Aberdour to journey to Kinghorn , and it was then you found the King 's body lying on the beach ? ’ |
| 18 | It was then he saw the approaching gendarme . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , it was then I noticed the sound . |
| 20 | It was then I remembered the oil pastels . |
| 21 | The horse would walk up that and that was how they marked the boundaries . |
| 22 | This , evidently , was how he viewed the ongoing crisis involving the NEA , which has been accused of using American tax dollars to subsidise morally offensive , even pornographic art ( see The Art Newspaper No. 17 , April 1992 , pp. 1 , 2 and 14 ) . |
| 23 | Climbing from his car , Curtis surveyed the carnage wreaked by his enemy — for that was how he regarded the Prophet now — his enemy . |
| 24 | While I was there we had the council man there . |
| 25 | It was there I suffered the nervous breakdown . |
| 26 | While Guest was there he measured the flow rate and thickness of the lava outpouring — the kind of data which , he says , is essential for understanding what will happen when the flow is diverted into a side channel . |
| 27 | Or are you thinking it was maybe yourself struck the blow ? ’ |
| 28 | and it was where they pinned the er , the , get the lips , the circle . |
| 29 | And that was where I got the knowledge about the extra money , and that is the only thing that I remember about from him . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you think that was where I saw the body ? |