Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner , they were all marched out to the back garden , which was similar to the front , where they could walk about or play catch ball , but were not allowed to stand and talk to each other . |
| 2 | We were all flung on to the roof . |
| 3 | Soon the twins and their brunettes and various glamorous hangers-on were all stripped off round the pool . |
| 4 | Thus law , religion and mortality were all bound up in the imperial title and role , and any offence against the Emperor and his law was an offence directly against God . |
| 5 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 6 | During July Albrecht , Beer , Lotze , Maier-Witt , Sternebeck and Viett were all handed over to the West German authorities ; Seckendorff-Gudent was released after allegations against him were dropped . |
| 7 | Bruin many years later became the CO of No 84 Squadron in Greece — that is before we were all thrown out by the Germans and , let me say at this stage , aided and abetted by a rather unmentionable faction of Greek insurgence . |
| 8 | We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace . |
| 9 | The major investigations of the early 1970s were all carried out with the hope of providing some suggestions for improvements to be applied in automated catalogues . |
| 10 | Worthington 's promotion to captain is the only good news this week for his club Sheffield Wednesday whose four England representatives — Andy Sinton , Chris Woods , Des Walker and Carlton Palmer — were all left out of the side to face Poland . |
| 11 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |
| 12 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 13 | We were all caught up in the shock and wondered what the significance was . |
| 14 | Formal groups were those set up by the management of an organization to undertake duties in the pursuit of organization goals . |
| 15 | These private verses were first collected up in the Nonesuch Collected Papers vol. 2 ( see MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ) . |
| 16 | It is important to realise that serious books of this kind , which form the backbone of the libraries and were first laid down by the Victorians , are most often those which are not taken out or ‘ issued ’ at all . |
| 17 | Thacker in P3733 were both shot down into the sea , while Flt.Lt . |
| 18 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
| 19 | Following a tap penalty Mark Willis and Wilkinson were both held up on the line before McGrath touched down and Mike Robson converted . |
| 20 | The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer . |
| 21 | and it was all split up into the different seminar group , we we had to take one aspect . |
| 22 | It was all taken up by the top brass you know . |
| 23 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 24 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 26 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 27 | When this was first pointed out to the ambassador , he said that he could not be sued for libel since he possessed diplomatic immunity . |
| 28 | It was first worked on at the turn of the century by the American psychologist , E. L. Thorndike , and more recently by another American psychologist , B. F. Skinner , and many others . |
| 29 | In the consultation document that was first put out to the public in nineteen ninety one , the public was only offered the yellow route . |
| 30 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |