Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays women carried everything short of CS gas ; all of them — at least , all of the women Elinor knew — were fairly well up on the - martial arts . |
| 2 | Things were relatively quiet down in the car park . |
| 3 | Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie . |
| 4 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 5 | His own mother was always first up in the mornings , to see husband and son off to work or college , and continued the habit almost till the day she died . |
| 6 | When Defries pulled herself over the projecting fragments of glass and into the cockpit , Daak was still half out of the pilot 's seat , staring at Ace 's back and her wind-whipped hair . |
| 7 | The music mix was more offensive out in the open . |
| 8 | It was clearly all up with the Collector . |
| 9 | Voting for the 11,000,000 electorate was legally compulsory up to the age of 60 . |
| 10 | I 'm a little surprised , chair , I could ask Amanda , but erm , Iffley is erm on the list , bearing in mind , recalling the erm point figures , where Iffley are if I recall correct was fairly well down on the league table , and Marston was something like erm six or some place . |
| 11 | Ziegler was now cut off on the wrong side of the Brussels road , but that predicament did not worry him . |
| 12 | No he was , he was but he was quite high up in the Royal Australian Air Force and having today which must have been in the middle of the night because Thursday , bit behind are n't they Australian 's ? |
| 13 | A diaper design was then card-wired on to the shell using a template and a straight-edge . |
| 14 | Calcavecchia was again first out in the afternoon and he gave poor Meshiai no respite , scoring 66 to a 73 . |
| 15 | oh no , the war was very much on at the time |
| 16 | Similarly on deck and on the navigational side we had all that was necessary but everything was very basic down to the manual anchor winch . |