Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 THE winner of Computer Guardian 's Compaq Competition is Allan Kelly of Slough , Bucks , whose card was first out of the hat .
2 Pam Wright was three over at the turn but ended up with a level par 73 and a four-round total of 293. 930319
3 The body was high up on the shoal , was n't it ?
4 The window of the charge room was high up in the wall , but through it Wycliffe could distinctly hear the strident voice of a woman teacher talking to her class .
5 When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there .
6 After the purges four years later , Clementis was air-brushed out of the photo .
7 On Monday morning Shelley was early down at the medical centre .
8 They had to choose someone for the launching ceremony and our child 's name was first out of the hat .
9 In Paris er , were top of the M & A league but the volume was well down on the record nineteen ninety .
10 Bailey was 5–2 down in the first set tie breaker but won five successive points to draw first blood and then broke his rival in both the third and fifth games of the second set for an astounding victory .
11 Then your grand total was right over to the left hand side .
12 So the camera was right down on the bottom .
13 The back of the ship was high out of the water , and I was very thankful for this because all the ship 's food was there .
14 Sam 's boat was one of the last to sail in between the old forts , and Harry , who was standing at the end of the stone quay in order to crow over the birth of his son and demand payment of his winnings , saw with a twinge of jealousy that Gristy 's ketch was well down in the water .
15 The house was right down at the bottom of the street , and I moved like a ghost from lamp to lamp , tiptoeing for some reason , as if I were in a jungle in dread of attracting the attention of wild animals prowling near me .
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