Example sentences of "[verb] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tunnelling that the Frenchman was paid — and handsomely — to supervise was off the road to Arbil , close to the village of Salahuddin , due north of Baghdad . |
| 2 | The price proposed was on the open market and Stuttgart was happy to offer it . |
| 3 | The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward . |
| 4 | What I did n't know was of the ninety-plus pieces of work , both large and small , which Save The Children undertook in the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | The only romance the Timelord ever enjoyed was in the 1964 William Hartnell four-parter , The Aztecs . |
| 6 | the reasons why the item involved was at the location ; |
| 7 | Huge cresset torches were placed high on the walls , the tables had been covered with white linen and the only plate used was of the best thick silver . |
| 8 | I like to think I am broad-minded , but the language my father used was beyond the pale , and all because he could n't have a shave ! |
| 9 | He was permitted to take his family with him , but the only intellectual companionship he found was among the Catholic missionaries : the local inhabitants remained strangers to him . |
| 10 | Dior scored a recent success with the launch of Dune , which industry sources say was among the most popular lines at Christmas . |
| 11 | In Pura , a village in Kamataka , Professor Amulva Reddy and his colleagues from the Indian Institute of Science found that 96 per cent of the wood that poor families burned was in the form of twigs . |
| 12 | The other way in which the economic aspects of military expenditure were presented was in the form of the public expenditure costs . |
| 13 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 14 | How could they say , as they all did , frequently and sanctimoniously , that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children ? |
| 15 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 16 | Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 17 | The one she insisted on inspecting was at the back . |
| 18 | The closest it came was during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | The closest they came was in the mid-Eighties when their group , Trash , Flash And Money — ‘ straight down-the-line uninteresting Billy Idol rock music ’ — was signed to a development deal by Capitol records in America ( in a development deal they give you some money while they decide whether you are any cop after all ) . |
| 20 | Celtic finished the half well on top , though the closest they came was from the powerful long range shooting of Polish defender Wdowczyk . |
| 21 | The hum of the bowstring when it came was like the sound of a harp being tuned , and when Jehan glanced back again Alexei was getting down from his bay to recover his arrows . |
| 22 | At first she sat in silence , stirring her tea as though to get it thoroughly stirred was of the utmost importance . |
| 23 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 24 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 25 | AMERICAN journalist William Shirer 's Berlin Diary records on September 18 that year : ‘ The longest Red Cross train I 've ever seen was at the Potsdamer Bahnhof . |
| 26 | The largest gathering previously seen was at the 1972 Neo-classical exhibition held at the V&A in London , organised by Mario Praz and Hugh Honour , which had managed to assemble fourteen sculptures . |
| 27 | Any extra help they received was through the dedication of any class teacher who had enough energy left over from dealing with the demands of the class as a whole . |
| 28 | What was needed was for the Government to spend much more money , in a more caring fashion . |
| 29 | Perhaps , as Ho said later , all that was needed was for the French to pronounce one word : independence ; but on both sides this was the most fraught and emotional issue . |
| 30 | My first dream I can ever remember was on the first day of exams . |