Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My first year at the club was tough when we were down the bottom of Division Two , but this is the biggest challenge I 've faced . |
| 2 | And when I went and got him up this morning his legs were out the bottom of the cot again ! |
| 3 | The most impressive wound was down the length of the upper part of his right arm , where the flesh had been sliced away . |
| 4 | Before 1905 was out the spectre of social upheaval thus enabled the Tsar 's government to regain the initiative . |
| 5 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 6 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 7 | The last time I was going out seriously was around the time of Shoom , which was very exciting . |
| 8 | It was around the time of ‘ Strange Town ’ and he was starting to think that punk rock had had it and he was getting very emotional . |
| 9 | It was around the time of Eric Verrico 's disappearance that the three Bernard brothers — Bruce , Oliver and Jeffrey — came into Minton 's life . |