Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was dragged down the hard , concrete steps on to the pavement . |
| 2 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 3 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
| 4 | I was dismissed from the library , but with a good reference and I was taken on the staff of the local Employment Exchange to ‘ sign on ’ the others . |
| 5 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 6 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 7 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
| 8 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 9 | Amongst the curiosities was a series of Tradescant portraits , which were hung on the gallery walls . |
| 10 | There was extensive trading in coal , which was brought up the river from Yarmouth , and the rich tracts of land surrounding the town produced a considerable quantity of corn , particularly barley . |
| 11 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 12 | The Second Period was the time during which was laid down the evidence the nature of which has been revealed by men such as Charles Darwin and others , who gave to the world an understanding of the way in which evolution has operated through thousands of millions of years . |
| 13 | By the middle of the twelfth century , a revised order introduced a solemn oath which was taken on the gospels . |
| 14 | She sits stunned , as if she was dragged out the same water , half-drowned , an hour ago and has n't got over the cold . |
| 15 | In 1934 , on the recommendation of Professor Bell , Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Cape Town , her school was given a studio in the College of Music and she was taken on the staff of the Faculty of Music . |
| 16 | As working volunteers of a fraternal railway we were taken on the strength of the Llangollen railway for the day , and , clad in our reflective waistcoats , we were conducted along the track , first on foot , then on the ‘ Neptune ’ , a diesel track inspection vehicle . |
| 17 | ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards . |
| 18 | When they were switched on the lights flooded out across the bare , flat expanse of moorland just beyond the perimeter of their property . |
| 19 | ‘ The first week , they plodded up the stairs and when we took them out for the day they were wiped out the next . |
| 20 | I have some illustrative figures in front of me erm which I I thought a question of this nature might , might crop up , erm th the figures are n't absolutely accurate , they were pulled off the file very quickly and er they may be out by er er er er a small amount , but they , they certainly illustrate the point . |
| 21 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 22 | A man used to hand it back in when the bus ran in and it was given out the next day . |
| 23 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 24 | However , what is slightly more problematic than the end of the prosecution is why it was brought in the first place . |
| 25 | Our folk up at Dalvaine and that , they spoke the Gaelic long after it was spoken down the glen . |
| 26 | In it was set down the ‘ The Fundamental Purpose Of The United States ’ and ‘ The Fundamental Design Of The Kremlin' together with their ‘ Underlying Conflict In The Realm Of Ideas And Values ’ . |
| 27 | It 's easy to say he was led up the garden path by a couple of pointed media questions , but I do n't accept that . |
| 28 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 29 | He was put on the waiting list for insertion of grommets . |
| 30 | Doctors tried out different medications to ease Glenn 's condition but tests showed his heart muscle was damaged and he was put on the waiting list for a transplant . |