Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 2 | Definitions are difficult , but so far as the workstation market can be defined , Dataquest reckons that it gained only 4.2% in 1992 , following a 14.5% gain in 1991 , and suggests that the slowdown in revenue was down to the overall mix of workstations shipped shifting towards lower-priced systems , and to the poor economic climate in Japan , so that the market crept up to $9,000m . |
| 3 | Now the opposition to the Members ' Club was out in the open . |
| 4 | The bandwagon of economic optimism was back on the road . |
| 5 | I mean , you know , when I was student at L S E , you know , the front of the , of the demonstration was down at the Law Courts , the back was still in , at , at er , Oxford Street , or something , you know . |
| 6 | Looking at the tangle of bushes on either side , she soon realised that to make a thorough search of the undergrowth was out of the question . |
| 7 | It is a relatively small basement room , so a large imposing piece was out of the question . |
| 8 | The hire car was down in the car park , the one near Miller 's End . |
| 9 | and Alan 's light was on in the hall , call it the hall and the car was there well a little while later he went . |
| 10 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
| 11 | When she got there , she remembered that the little gold key was back on the glass table . |
| 12 | Yet a return to the ordinary relations between a templestate and the Seleucid sovereign was out of the question . |
| 13 | Saulieu was back on the map . |
| 14 | Farrar was back with the rest , holding a handkerchief to his eye . |
| 15 | Watching the flames shoot up the chimney , he told himself firmly that marriage was out of the question . |
| 16 | Lunch was over on the ward when he returned . |
| 17 | This meant a slightly longer , but more pleasant , train journey to London ; and it presented no problems about staying up in the evening , whereas with my school duties lunch was out of the question . |
| 18 | Work was out of the question , she could not think about it ; she did not dare go to the tower , she felt she had damaged something : loose talk means hubris . |
| 19 | My next thought , since saving my life 's work was out of the question , was for a pair of underpants in the probable event that I would shortly find myself in public . |
| 20 | At the same time she knew escape was out of the question . |
| 21 | When eight artists relied to : ‘ Why have there been no great women artists ? ’ in Art News in January 1971 ( including Elaine de Kooning , Rosemarie Castoro , Lynda Benglis , Sleanor Antin ) the cat was out of the bag in the United States . |
| 22 | Diana then knew that divorce was out of the question . |
| 23 | Divorce was out of the question , because of her religious convictions . |
| 24 | and all our shopping was down at the Old Town , you had to go down this lane to the Old Town if you wanted a stamp |
| 25 | I had heard rumours that Jack the Ripper was about in the night , but that did n't stop me launching into the fog . |
| 26 | His Union Rep. was up to the occasion and had scoured the notice boards for restrictions on locomotive types without success . |
| 27 | A cowboy was out on the range when he came across an Indian with his ear pressed down hard against the trail . |
| 28 | That famous stain was back on the front steps . |
| 29 | The edition was out on the |
| 30 | But then Jimmy Magilton fired the United midfield machine and the match was back in the boiler when John Durnin scored a brilliant equaliser . |