Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 32 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
| 33 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 34 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 35 | But negotiations were broken off by the government on 3 May once the compositors at the Daily Mail refused to set the type for an editorial on ‘ For King and Country ’ . |
| 36 | Although agreement was reached on establishing a UDF newspaper with a maximum 70,000-copy circulation , the talks were broken off by the UDF delegation on Jan. 18 after the BCP had refused to give written guarantees that the other promises would be fulfilled . |
| 37 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 38 | As it does , old divisions that were welded over by the fight against communism will reappear . |
| 39 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 40 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |
| 41 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 42 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 43 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 44 | ‘ Do n't mention him again ! ’ he said thickly , and a moment later they were stepping out into the sunlight at the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club , the colonial sanctuary of Hong Kong Island with its Tudor pavilion , sweeping green lawns and the Union Jack flying against a halcyon blue sky . |
| 45 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 46 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 47 | Although many of the yeniçeri forgot all about their origins and became fanatical Muslims , behaving oppressively to their former compatriots when they were posted back into the Balkans , others , like Sokolović , kept in contact with their people and tried to help them . |
| 48 | The pictures , together with the museum staff and the two guards accompanying them , were turfed off from the train because the guards lacked permits to carry weapons on Latvian territory . |
| 49 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 50 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 51 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 52 | Ray Angel put the final touches , adding echo and reverberation when the voices were relayed down to the studio floor . |
| 53 | Hungry hacks were flown out to the set to experience the four S's for themselves . |
| 54 | Under the 1987 treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces [ see p. 35602 ] the last of the US ground-launched nuclear-armed cruise missiles stationed in Europe under the 1979 NATO " twin-track " decision [ see pp. 30159-60 ] were flown out of the US base at Comiso , Sicily , on March 26 . |
| 55 | Ardglass were squeezed out on the final card . |
| 56 | Two large boulders were rolled on to the road and they sat down to wait , guns at the ready . |
| 57 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 58 | And , when we were driving back towards the tunnel , do you know Upper Parliament Street ? |
| 59 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 60 | Yesterday , the police denied that drug dealers were tipped off before the operation . |