Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was explained to her the day they moved in . ’ |
| 2 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 3 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 4 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 5 | Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’ |
| 6 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 10 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 11 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And , now she had found him , there was born in her the need to give . |
| 14 | But when the door was locked behind me the cell was dark for there was neither window nor electric light . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
| 17 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 18 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
| 19 | You know I did , I was entranced by them the other day . |
| 20 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 21 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |
| 22 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 23 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 24 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 25 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |
| 26 | I was thinking of them the other night , well they er , five at least erm they were |
| 27 | Enlightenment was urged on me the day I saw the old Jew float to the surface of the deep latrine , how he splashed and struggled into life , and was hoisted out by the jubilant guards , his clothes cleansed by the mire . |
| 28 | A girl from another broken family ‘ used to sleep in the same bed as grandma — I was sleeping with her the night she was found dead the following morning . ’ |
| 29 | Was sleeping with him the price you had to pay for having him throw a little business your way ? ’ |