Example sentences of "was [adv prt] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a tiny little things you know er in glass cases now there are a few at bus stops but a lot of people do n't use bus stops any more you know they drive erm I know that posters great hoardings that we some of us probably grew up with when everybody knew what was on and the great big posters everywhere . |
| 2 | I had to be escorted because the curfew was on and the village was heavily guarded . |
| 3 | The Boer War was on and the first sort of major conflict erm in the period of movie history , and naturally people wanted to see what the war was like . |
| 4 | Only the room she was in and the company she was among marked the difference . |
| 5 | My fears were to be unfounded as the nurse chatted to me and before could stop fantasizing about women in uniform the needle was in and the blood was pumping . |
| 6 | They did give me the name of the hospital Salome was in and the taller one told me that the accident had happened ‘ just off the M20 near Wrotham ’ , but they had no more details , they were just running errands for the Kent police . |
| 7 | An agent said Daniels realised the position he was in and the seriousness of the his actions . |
| 8 | In the jargon , it means that applications can be ‘ stateless ’ , that is , is the communication application having to keep track of what it state it was in when the failure occurred . |
| 9 | ‘ Then suddenly the car appeared and swerved around the barrier , which was down and the warning lights were flashing . |
| 10 | The sun was down and the night wind boomed in the great hollow shell of the estuary . |
| 11 | The canvas was down and the tapes gone . |
| 12 | CHRISTMAS was over but the war was not . |
| 13 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 14 | A further controversy was over whether the girls could be considered to have brought the rape on themselves by being out at night . |
| 15 | In the tent that night we eat smoked trout and Odd-Knut tells us that the previous year there was a fight on his team and after it was over and the dogs were moving again he saw blood on the snow . |
| 16 | The honeymoon was over and the reality of what she had taken on began to dawn . |
| 17 | However , it turned out to be a very relaxed meeting , so much so that when the private session was over and the press were invited in to take photographs , the Prince said to the Pope , ‘ Let me introduce you to my press corps . ’ |
| 18 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 19 | After the meeting was over and the main demonstration had dispersed , some civil rights supporters succeeded in infiltrating to Market Square by a roundabout route . |
| 20 | In 1649 the war was over and the king executed , but that summer a surprising turn of events took place in the Fens . |
| 21 | Once the meal was over and the thanksgiving intoned , Corbett whispered to Ranulf to return to their chamber while he sought an interview with the Prior . |
| 22 | By 1818 , when the War of Independence was over and the Republican Revolution can be said to have been won , America had rejected both the Crown and religious establishment , and had accepted a creed that granted religious toleration and the ‘ natural rights of man ’ . |
| 23 | After the funeral was over and the bereaved student returned to college , instead of going up to him and holding him — or even just politely commiserating with him — most students ignored him . |
| 24 | On the day they had gone , when the summer was over and the skies grey and a wind blowing , he had thought of that image . |
| 25 | Tipperary were to see controversies eventually over the waste disposal habits of the mining companies , but these controversies arose after the mining was over and the companies had packed their bags and gone . |
| 26 | I realised that once the tour of the assembly area was over and the lunch began my chances of nosing around would be minimal . |
| 27 | Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years . |
| 28 | The ‘ false dawn of courtesy ’ was over and the pupils really did accept each other . |
| 29 | The immediate strike threat was over and the union had demonstrated its ability to control the men ; the formal establishment of the National Maritime Board remained . |
| 30 | When the meal was over and the tables had been cleared of everything except the wine and the cups , one of the Altun stood up . |