Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 2 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 3 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 4 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 5 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 6 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 7 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 8 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |
| 9 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 10 | Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ? |
| 11 | That 's why I was messing about with the . |
| 12 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 13 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 14 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 15 | ‘ This morning ( 20 February ) I was moved back into the ward as I am now off the danger list . |
| 16 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 17 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 18 | I was dragged back into the boat almost immediately . |
| 19 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 20 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 21 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 23 | I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it . |
| 24 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 25 | I was dotting about behind the wicket . |
| 26 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 27 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 28 | For this print , I was thinking back to the patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 29 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 30 | There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight . |