Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
2 | The first of these reports was given on July 2 by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , who was heard in what the Independent of the following day described as an atmosphere of " chilly disdain " . |
3 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
4 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
5 | Although this treatment was undoubtedly efficacious in some cases , the patients ended up with malaria , and so a ‘ fever box ’ was developed in which the patient 's temperature could be maintained at over 106°F for several hours . |
6 | It was explained to her the day they moved in . ’ |
7 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
8 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
9 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
10 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
11 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
12 | Sutton was looking at what the public bought today . |
13 | Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’ |
14 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
15 | It might be said that the museum was Mrs Gardner 's revenge ; Fenway Court , the remarkable Italian palazzo which she built well outside respectable Boston among the city 's breweries and distilleries , was named by her The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum . |
16 | Cos you remember last week we accounted for er He was in the world , and although the world was made through him the world did not recognize him . |
17 | Therefore at the Jamaica Conference of the IMF in January 1976 a second amendment to the articles of agreement ( the first amendment being the introduction of SDRs ) was made by which the system of floating exchange rates was legalized . |
18 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
19 | In the case of ordering YAC probes , a modified distance measure was used in which the influence of each cosmid clone c was weighted in proportion to 1/n c , where n c is the number of YAC probes positive for that cosmid clone . |
20 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
21 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
22 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
23 | And , now she had found him , there was born in her the need to give . |
24 | But when the door was locked behind me the cell was dark for there was neither window nor electric light . |
25 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
26 | But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ . |
27 | and was to do with what the rights would be erm in terms of benefits and in terms of compensation from the council when they moved out . |
28 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
29 | The instructions which Mr. Tucker gave to the Burnham sub-branch made it clear that the bank was retaining for itself the responsibility of explaining to Mrs. O'Brien the effect and nature of the documents she was to sign . |
30 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |