Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the opposition to the Members ' Club was out in the open . |
| 2 | The bandwagon of economic optimism was back on the road . |
| 3 | I mean , you know , when I was student at L S E , you know , the front of the , of the demonstration was down at the Law Courts , the back was still in , at , at er , Oxford Street , or something , you know . |
| 4 | Looking at the tangle of bushes on either side , she soon realised that to make a thorough search of the undergrowth was out of the question . |
| 5 | It is a relatively small basement room , so a large imposing piece was out of the question . |
| 6 | The hire car was down in the car park , the one near Miller 's End . |
| 7 | and Alan 's light was on in the hall , call it the hall and the car was there well a little while later he went . |
| 8 | When she got there , she remembered that the little gold key was back on the glass table . |
| 9 | Yet a return to the ordinary relations between a templestate and the Seleucid sovereign was out of the question . |
| 10 | Saulieu was back on the map . |
| 11 | Farrar was back with the rest , holding a handkerchief to his eye . |
| 12 | Watching the flames shoot up the chimney , he told himself firmly that marriage was out of the question . |
| 13 | Lunch was over on the ward when he returned . |
| 14 | This meant a slightly longer , but more pleasant , train journey to London ; and it presented no problems about staying up in the evening , whereas with my school duties lunch was out of the question . |
| 15 | Work was out of the question , she could not think about it ; she did not dare go to the tower , she felt she had damaged something : loose talk means hubris . |
| 16 | My next thought , since saving my life 's work was out of the question , was for a pair of underpants in the probable event that I would shortly find myself in public . |
| 17 | At the same time she knew escape was out of the question . |
| 18 | When eight artists relied to : ‘ Why have there been no great women artists ? ’ in Art News in January 1971 ( including Elaine de Kooning , Rosemarie Castoro , Lynda Benglis , Sleanor Antin ) the cat was out of the bag in the United States . |
| 19 | Diana then knew that divorce was out of the question . |
| 20 | Divorce was out of the question , because of her religious convictions . |
| 21 | I had heard rumours that Jack the Ripper was about in the night , but that did n't stop me launching into the fog . |
| 22 | His Union Rep. was up to the occasion and had scoured the notice boards for restrictions on locomotive types without success . |
| 23 | A cowboy was out on the range when he came across an Indian with his ear pressed down hard against the trail . |
| 24 | But then Jimmy Magilton fired the United midfield machine and the match was back in the boiler when John Durnin scored a brilliant equaliser . |
| 25 | It was a cold winter , and he soon found out that the theatre was centrally heated and the heating in his dressing-room was on throughout the day and night , so he moved in . |
| 26 | A caddie was out of the question and a golf cart , her usual helpmate , would not be allowed on the coarse until later on . |
| 27 | The flood was up to the top of the stove already , and as the gas went out the saucepan went afloat and he was scalded by a stream of boiling water that mixed with the cold . |
| 28 | So Saturday evening was back to the papers and then back home , usually about seven , mostly walking because you could n't afford the penny for the tram , no ha'penny fares , just a penny , w . |
| 29 | The kids were in the house and Daddy was up in the roof throwing bikes down . |
| 30 | To try to leave the surface of the planet was out of the question . |