Example sentences of "[vb past] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price proposed was on the open market and Stuttgart was happy to offer it . |
| 2 | the reasons why the item involved was at the location ; |
| 3 | Huge cresset torches were placed high on the walls , the tables had been covered with white linen and the only plate used was of the best thick silver . |
| 4 | I like to think I am broad-minded , but the language my father used was beyond the pale , and all because he could n't have a shave ! |
| 5 | He was permitted to take his family with him , but the only intellectual companionship he found was among the Catholic missionaries : the local inhabitants remained strangers to him . |
| 6 | In Pura , a village in Kamataka , Professor Amulva Reddy and his colleagues from the Indian Institute of Science found that 96 per cent of the wood that poor families burned was in the form of twigs . |
| 7 | The closest it came was during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | The closest they came was in the mid-Eighties when their group , Trash , Flash And Money — ‘ straight down-the-line uninteresting Billy Idol rock music ’ — was signed to a development deal by Capitol records in America ( in a development deal they give you some money while they decide whether you are any cop after all ) . |
| 9 | Celtic finished the half well on top , though the closest they came was from the powerful long range shooting of Polish defender Wdowczyk . |
| 10 | The hum of the bowstring when it came was like the sound of a harp being tuned , and when Jehan glanced back again Alexei was getting down from his bay to recover his arrows . |
| 11 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 12 | Any extra help they received was through the dedication of any class teacher who had enough energy left over from dealing with the demands of the class as a whole . |
| 13 | Er all those that finished was in the finishing union , yeah . |
| 14 | The week which followed was amongst the most lonely of Ruth 's life . |
| 15 | The condition which the court imposed was in the very terms subsequently incorporated in paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order . |
| 16 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 17 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 18 | The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her . |
| 19 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 20 | The only significant advance recorded was in the draft Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , in which Northern countries accept the principle of assisting the South to develop without destroying their environment , and Southern states agree to work towards curbing population growth . |
| 21 | The dental surgery where his Mum worked was on the outskirts of Thirkett . |
| 22 | The one battle she lost was over the dog , Hector . |
| 23 | Books dealing mainly with science and the occult lined the walls , bits of engineering projects littered the table , his ultra-feminine dresses hung in one corner and the printing press of the transsexual/transvestite magazine he edited was in the other corner . |
| 24 | One of the many design changes Mickie originated was in the exhaust valve , where many production batches had resulted in 100% scrap . |
| 25 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 26 | However , I was riveted by the speech of the hon. Member for Taunton ( Mr. Nicholson ) , who welcomed a measure that he thought was in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 27 | Well I can remember when I went Was in the water at the start , there was You could see a lot of boats coming in alongside the platform . |
| 28 | Was that the ar was that the area that you felt was of the most of er benefit to you ? |
| 29 | That felt was in the window last week for twelve and six and … and leghorns are always expensive . |
| 30 | The turquoise dress she wore was of the kind of stretch cotton which showed up any figure fault and which in this instance merely demonstrated the perfection of her body . |