Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd . |
| 2 | All that happened at Bourani was in the nature of a private masque ; and no doubt the passage was a hint to me that I should , both out of politeness and for my own pleasure , not poke my nose behind the scenes . |
| 3 | In 1600 ocean voyages were a rarity in England , but by 1700 ordinary English ships were able to find their way around the Atlantic and Indian oceans with little difficulty , and the money that Charles spent on Greenwich was among the most useful items of government expenditure of his age . |
| 4 | ‘ So from then on I had to make sure that everything I presented to Shawcraft was in the form of a very concise constructional drawing — and that took time — a lot of time . |
| 5 | The last time I spoke to Daniel was on the evening of the accident . |
| 6 | He described plays and revues he had seen , but most of what he wrote to Hanns was about the ballet . |