Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early morning planes were heard passing over in the mist and the rain . |
| 2 | The works production shops were to remain laid out in the form described for progressive building and repairing , only marginally altering over the years to accommodate new designs and techniques , such as the Stanier all steel body panelling design of the early 1930s . |
| 3 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 4 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 5 | It seems to me from what Mr in particular said , that the bottom as it were has dropped out of the market to this extent that it seems that the policy that he 's advocating , is not thirty one thousand any more , but thirty one thousand plus any amount of windfalls and recycling . |
| 6 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 7 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 8 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 9 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 10 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 11 | A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead . |
| 12 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 13 | Unfortunately those officers were needed to help out with the incident at Milton Keynes … shortly before the display . |
| 14 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 15 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 16 | Furthermore , they were told to point out to the mother that LGS would not reduce the output of stool from the sick child , but was meant to prevent the dehydration associated with the diarrhoea . |
| 17 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 18 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 19 | Above all , the historians were inspired to carve out of the record of the past an exclusive nationalist slice . |
| 20 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 21 | However , the principle in Williams v Singer can not be taken too far and Lord Sands in Reid 's Trustees v IRC made the point that if the trustees were actually to receive the income which they were bound to pay over to the beneficiaries they will not avoid an assessment on themselves . |
| 22 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 23 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 24 | Hours were spent paddling around in the dark on the Suez Canal until they believed they had mastered handling of the inflatables . |
| 25 | Most of his days were spent huddled round over the fire and George knew that his parents were worried about his Uncle 's condition . |
| 26 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 27 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 28 | Nothing more was heard of Cargo , who were rumoured to be considering dropping the loaves outside Dutch territorial waters , until a month ago a number of loaves of bread were found washed up on the Dutch coast . |
| 29 | Elsewhere fully grown trees were uprooted , and were found laid out in the direction of the blast . |
| 30 | Mounted officers called ‘ rangers ’ were appointed to drive back into the forest deer which had strayed into the purlieus . |