Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 2 | Renewed accusations had been made against Jones on Friday 10 March by James Brophy , the Utah vice president for research , who made allegations of piracy to Prof. John Lamb of Brigham Young University , and this was followed up the next week by Pons making general accusations against Jones to Dr Gajewski at the DOE . |
| 3 | You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see . |
| 4 | These were to find out the views of parents and staff about all aspects of nursery life at the outset and from this to prioritise agreed areas for development to form an action plan . |
| 5 | The graveyard was packed with people , more were arriving down the farm lanes and along the main road from east and west . |
| 6 | Burton describes being ‘ between the two men I most feared ’ but nevertheless , and with all that was hanging on the part , he went back for more . |
| 7 | No , that was picked out the history book |