Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1973 Kylie was off to the local school , Camberwell primary . |
| 2 | ‘ We have a real big production screen , and as Jeff was in on the design of the set , I still feel him with me . |
| 3 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 4 | HEATHCLIFF HAD GIVEN me a letter for Catherine , but I decided not to show it to her until Mr Edgar was out of the house . |
| 5 | Definitions are difficult , but so far as the workstation market can be defined , Dataquest reckons that it gained only 4.2% in 1992 , following a 14.5% gain in 1991 , and suggests that the slowdown in revenue was down to the overall mix of workstations shipped shifting towards lower-priced systems , and to the poor economic climate in Japan , so that the market crept up to $9,000m . |
| 6 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |
| 7 | He stressed that GRE was back in the black due to significant improvement in its non-life insurance business , particularly in the UK . |
| 8 | Now the opposition to the Members ' Club was out in the open . |
| 9 | The bandwagon of economic optimism was back on the road . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Richard was out of the car before I could open my door . |
| 12 | Even Woolstaton was up to the |
| 13 | But there was not a sound : it was that time in the afternoon when Mrs Prynn was down in the village , Sir Gregory and Amyas were at their books , and the ladies in their chambers . |
| 14 | Rafiq was over by the window , reading a technical magazine . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Her wakefulness was dogged by growing anxiety over the day ahead ; had her mother told Jennifer that David was back in the country , that he worked at OBEX ? |
| 17 | Had her sister known David was back in the country , or had it been a shock ? |
| 18 | ‘ Did you know David was back in the country ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ David was out of the room for — I do n't know , ten or fifteen minutes I suppose . ’ |
| 20 | They followed instead the verdict of 1225 , and declared that all Surrey was out of the forest . |
| 21 | It is a relatively small basement room , so a large imposing piece was out of the question . |
| 22 | The hire car was down in the car park , the one near Miller 's End . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
| 25 | When she got there , she remembered that the little gold key was back on the glass table . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Ken was back on the London stage once more — with the role of one of the ugly sisters in the London Coliseum 's production of Cinderella — which , despite his and other interpretations was not quite a pantomime . |
| 27 | Change in pocket , Ken was back on the campaign trail ready for the several handshaking sessions in other key seats standing between him and supper . |
| 28 | ‘ I wish she 'd get her hair done , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was out of the room . |
| 29 | Yet a return to the ordinary relations between a templestate and the Seleucid sovereign was out of the question . |
| 30 | Saulieu was back on the map . |