Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before the accident I was right up with the leaders , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I mean it was right up to the wall , and the we 'd have bothered . |
| 3 | er , and if you , not quite as short as you did last time , you see when you combed it up last time it was right up to the top just a little bit |
| 4 | and there was this dump truck sort of about two foot out , he 'd obviously changed his mind and sort of had er stopped , had a Reliant Regal , you know a Reliant Regal it was right up to the windscreen and there was a pile of glass in , you know everywhere it was |
| 5 | He was right out in the open and the wind was blowing towards us . |
| 6 | There was skid marks all over and the traffic was right back down the A seventeen , when I got there it |
| 7 | Mr Davies said : ‘ Mrs Morgan was right back against the fence but was struck as this juggernaut continued on its way . ’ |
| 8 | The baby was wholly out by the time she got back with Sister , though in a caul , as if giftwrapped in Clingfilm . |
| 9 | The game was effectively over by the interval , with Celtic having built up a four-goal lead through Graham Nichols ( 2 ) , Kevin Messenger and Tom Shepherd . |
| 10 | It sounded as if it was somewhere up in the farm buildings . |
| 11 | One morning the alarm calls of grey langur monkeys alerted Bill Arjan Singh that Harriet was somewhere down by the river that forms the boundary with the National Park . |
| 12 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 13 | But then , at first glance , Vic was somewhat out of the ordinary . |
| 14 | He had thought it was all over for the Bookman and that the acid had not worked . |
| 15 | THEY thought it was all over at the BBC 21 years ago when they switched off the most famous football commentating voice of all , Kenneth Wolstenholme . |
| 16 | it was all over at the start of the second half … it took Millwall just 17 seconds and ten touches to win the game … |
| 17 | Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour . |
| 18 | The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days . |
| 19 | It was all over in the 10th . |
| 20 | But apparently it was all out of the scientists ' control . |
| 21 | It was all out of the hole-in-the-wall this evening . |
| 22 | Steve was obviously out for the count . |
| 23 | If a mistake was made , it was lifting ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ on to the back of the single , a decision which was entirely down to the band . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , whilst a joint campaign with the Communist Party and other political organizations was entirely out of the question , the Labour leadership felt compelled to adjust its policy with regard to Spain . |
| 25 | As the fighting was apparently over by the time he attended the German emperor Conrad II 's imperial coronation in Rome in March 1027 , the most likely year for Holy River therefore seems to be 1026 , or conceivably , if operations were protracted , 1025 . |
| 26 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 27 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 28 | But Collins was soon back in the thick of the action , fisting clear a McCaffrey free kick and throwing himself across his line to make a fine two handed stop from a Kavanagh volley . |
| 29 | Much to my surprise I was soon out on the water like a regular Captain Pugwash . |
| 30 | I shaved and showered , clipping two seconds off the record , and was soon out on the highway heading for Faketown . |