Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task of the Conservatives was to kill off the Liberals as a credible third alternative and then project the Conservative Party as offering a dynamic alternative to socialism . |
| 2 | They have taken Fergusson the teacher , while he was nailing up the lists , and stripped him and tarred him — ‘ Donald — you would not do that ! |
| 3 | Barefooted and bare-armed , she was bringing in the cows from the fields for milling . |
| 4 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 5 | Victoria has slipped from that part of the head where pressing thoughts gather , taking with her a lot of the baggage that was cluttering up the hallways . |
| 6 | The woman had no rights in the matter , for by Jesus 's time all the man had to do was to write out the words ‘ I divorce you ’ and the divorce was effected . |
| 7 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 8 | It was picking out the spaces through the trees and making enchanting patterns among the bronzes and browns and greens , and occasionally highlighting spiders ' webs , laden with moisture . |
| 9 | The small , folded sheets on which he was writing down the things he knew about himself . |
| 10 | Noticing my bewilderment , he revealed he was writing down the names of the ‘ bigwigs ’ , as he was finding it difficult to remember them all . |
| 11 | He folded it open at a page of stocks and shares , and as he was looking down the lists he gave the man two dollars . |
| 12 | One of my first jobs in the morning , when I was not at school , was to sweep out the customers ' part of the shop . |
| 13 | And he had this this erm casting of a plane you know he was cleaning up the edges gave the game away of course then . |
| 14 | The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam , and water was pouring down the panes . |
| 15 | Well I think , she said she was going down the shops , so I said ah can you just wait just a sec , I 'll go and get my wallet and I 'll be down she said not to worry she 'd got money anyway whe when I got there she bumped to Maggi and then you 'd gone and then |
| 16 | ‘ All what moving about the country ? ’ asked Cliff , largely to avert further discussion of sprouts and red cabbage , which he could see was imminent from the suspicious manner in which his mother was turning over the vegetables on her heaped plate . |
| 17 | Mike rang the solicitor up yesterday and he said that he was sending out the contracts to us |
| 18 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 19 | The main thrust of the document , however , was to point out the lessons drawn by the leadership from the failure of the 1956–62 campaign : |
| 20 | If he was acquainted with Smith 's work he would naturally have assumed that the French Academy knew it too , and that the point of the competition was to fill in the details of Smith 's proof . |
| 21 | Sir Anthony had concluded his business with the plump lawyer as far as he was able to overcome his distaste for discussing deals or mentioning money , and he was holding back the brambles for her , as it were , letting her into their company , and she butted through , a young dog again , let out for a walk . |
| 22 | Dawn was dishing out the details with the beer . ’ |
| 23 | but that was n't with flood water coming over , that was because it was coming up the drains , cos it could n't drain into the river |
| 24 | So my sisters er When we was coming down the lanes , now them country lanes , were n't all done nice , they were grass , where the carts used to come through . |
| 25 | Another favourite pastime was to chat up the girls from Directory Enquiries while they were getting phone numbers . |
| 26 | We might note the irony at this point : the purpose of experimentation was to clear up the confusions , contradictions , and conflicting advice of common sense . |
| 27 | As Clinton was taking up the reins of power , a disconsolate President Bush flew back to Washington to make arrangements for the handover . |
| 28 | The women who joined such communities were sometimes married and their aim was to live out the ideals of an apostolic life within the restrictions of their local community . |
| 29 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 30 | All you had to do was to hold up the negotiations until I got desperate and then bully me into authorizing the Japanese deal on the pretext of raising money to pay for my release ! |