Example sentences of "was [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 A few yards away , the food dispenser 's sensor light was on as it scanned the crowd for likely clients .
2 They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back :
3 And then once all the acid was in if you left the tape open what would happen to the gas ?
4 His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors .
5 I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started .
6 I 'd read about this technique in my books , but it was only when I did the course that I realised that , although it would work for sparrowhawks and most other hunting birds , Dawn 's hunting did not depend on speed .
7 It took a great mental effort to move and go upstairs to change ; even then , she had to keep her mind blank , and it was only as she cooked the evening meal , every action mechanical , that she thought clearly again .
8 It was only as she rounded the corner that she remembered she had n't thanked him for walking her home .
9 It was only as she reached the small turning leading to the patio that she stopped , a momentary apprehension bringing goose-pimples to her skin .
10 It was only because we had the quality systems in place , okay we did n't have accreditation er at the time , but the quality systems were in place , that we were invited to tender for the Crossrail project for Rickmansworth station .
11 She did n't see David again until late afternoon when her shift was over and she joined the group from Conway House in the swimming-pool .
12 ‘ With ‘ Spirit Of Eden ’ it was just that we had the freedom to move into this constructive freeform style of playing , which up till then we just could n't afford to do , ’ continues Mark .
13 Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born .
14 Our failure was not that we neglected the figures , but that we ignored the ideology …
15 It was not that she minded the hard work ; it was what the hard work did to her poor hands .
16 It was not till we saw the captive aerostat balloon with its ever watching radar that the Americans had hoisted over Grand Bahama to probe for boats or aircraft smuggling drugs , that the Maggot again spoke , and by then he had recaptured all his old insouciance .
17 Buildings , also , seldom appear in his paintings but this was not because he lacked the ability as his etchings show .
18 It was not until I visited the SHAPE nursery in Belgium in 1969 , with my then grown-up daughter that I saw this again .
19 It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch .
20 It was not until she reached the age of specialization that she realized how well she had succeeded , although she had had her suspicions : but at the age of fifteen , at the moment of choice , the moment from which the Arts stretched away in one direction and the Sciences in another , never to meet again , she realized that Mrs Hill and Miss Haines had actually been fighting over her .
21 He acquired it partly by accident , for war was near when he ascended the throne .
22 Miss Dalzell was out but she says the bedsit was not properly equipped .
23 My father 's explanation was that " It was simply because he liked the sight of blood " .
24 It was here that we found the official report of the operation by 22 Squadron on September 17 , 1940 , the report with which I had opened this story .
25 It said , In this house ( and the ceramic of the plaque had broken and the name was missing ) stayed on his first visit to the city , and it was here that he wrote the opening pages of his greatest work .
26 And he was here before he bought the place .
27 It was here where they dazzled the minds of the masses with their pioneering space rock sound , a true alternative to Lennon & McCartney 's elegant pop confections and one that would later become the blueprint for numerous ‘ progressive ’ outfits in the early '70s .
28 ‘ It was n't until we noticed the absence of female customers , the dim red lights , and the photos of naked women on the walls that we realised why the ‘ barmaids ’ were laughing at us . ’
29 We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters .
30 It was n't until they reached the walls of Assisi that she spoke again .
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