Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last year an extra 29,000 inpatients and 8,500 day case patients were treated up 6pc on the previous year 's total of 588,000 . |
| 2 | The various groups who were to carry out raids along the North African coast gathered at Siwa at the beginning of June , aiming to leave for their targets between the 6th and the 8th of the month escorted by LRDG patrols . |
| 3 | Savage penalties were meted out broadcast to the craftsmen , which suggests both a low status in the eyes of the king and a low standard of honesty . |
| 4 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 5 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 6 | In the Euro-elections of June 1989 the Tories were wiped out north of the border . |
| 7 | We 'd gotten to the stage where we were selling out venues like the Hammersmith Odeon and none of us were prepared to return to the club circuit , so we quit while we were ahead . |
| 8 | At the time a number of instrumented buoys were moored along the equator and were sending back information about the wind and sea conditions . |
| 9 | ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’ |
| 10 | I had strap many times , I remember once , on my desk , in my desk , they were lift up desks at the time , and it it and it was teacher was a grand fellow , and I got under my desk , underneath my desk , written underneath it , erm God helps them that helps themselves , but God help them that I catch in this desk . |
| 11 | Ambassador Lipski had begun to complain to Göring that German newspapers like Der Stürmer and Der Gessilige from Pila were stirring up resentment against the Poles throughout the border districts by referring to the forcible separation of Danzig from the Reich , and by referring to the Polish Corridor as land ceded to Poland . |
| 12 | No that 's right , as I say but erm anyway then after that when I left at say sixteen , you see , er er er a friend of ours who was a railway clerk at Needham Station came and told us that they were taking on girls on the Railway Company and would I like to do it and so of course I had to pass exams and er actually , can I read some notes that |
| 13 | What a sickening feast of hypocrisy we were served up courtesy of the Freddie Mercury Tribute . |
| 14 | Not so long ago , when the US Navy were carrying out exercises in the Sea of Japan an American destroyer banged into , and quite severely damaged , a Russian submarine which was monitoring things a little too closely . ’ |
| 15 | South Wales Police were carrying out inquiries in the Uplands area of Swansea and checking with hospitals . |
| 16 | To the north the Franks and Lombards threatened , while to the east the Vandals and Huns were carrying out attacks with the violence with which their names are now synonymous . |
| 17 | Very red and frothy , frothy colour blood , okay , supposing I had er damaged the lining of the stomach , or perhaps I 've had an ulcer that I 've perforated , and I was coughing up blood from the stomach what colour might that be ? |
| 18 | A couple of weeks after the arrests , a lawyer in the Belfast office of the Treasury Solicitor was drawing up charges on the basis of the presence of the pistol when a senior police official ordered him to prepare fresh indictments charging them with murdering three specified Roman Catholics . |
| 19 | At 9.20 , PC Foster was filling in reports at the Police Station , Windsor . |
| 20 | The plan drew wide support from schools , universities and industry , but was turned down flat by the Department of Education , apparently on instructions from Downing Street . |
| 21 | The Test of Acceptability was carried out by Lord Pearce and a number of other people , including Lord Harlech , and it was turned down flat by the Africans . |
| 22 | Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions . |
| 23 | A Middlesbrough Council spokesman said the authority 's policy was to buy up properties in the area with a view to demolition . |
| 24 | In debates over the Labour party 's policy review in 1989 , Mr Kinnock countered complaints from his left wing that he was propping up capitalism with the claim that Labour 's task was to make the market work more efficiently and justly . |
| 25 | Bobo was breaking off pieces of the banana , rolling them around with her lips . |
| 26 | Balor was bellowing for help ; he was calling down vengeance on the Trees and promising that Inchbad and the Robemaker and the Master CuRoi would certainly punish the Trees for this . |
| 27 | It is the first Scottish Office contract to have been lost by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office since it was set up north of the Border in 1906 with the primary aim of servicing the Scottish Office . |
| 28 | Sisulu said that the ANC believed that a " third force " was stirring up violence in the townships between ANC supporters and those of the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi . |
| 29 | In its place the aim was to build up communities on the periphery equipped with all the necessary facilities , including local employment and to set a firm limit to the size of these communities . |
| 30 | The one in front pedalled furiously , head low , and then , head up , let the bike ride , face lifted , up to the sky , the sky that was giving out stars as the earth put on flowers . |