Example sentences of "the boy was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is made clear that the boy was exposed to serious danger by his father 's irresponsibility and by his sisters ' departure : but his sisters had been exposed to this father too , and had had to defend themselves . |
| 2 | The boy was born centre stage . |
| 3 | The boy was always more uncomfortable with these essays in tenderness than any sudden harshness . |
| 4 | The boy was wearing his blue suit , shining black shoes , white shirt and blue tie and his fair hair was oiled . |
| 5 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
| 6 | It was after the boy was born that I came to live in London . |
| 7 | The boy was big and handsome , blue-eyed and fair-headed . |
| 8 | The boy was stooping now , searching for something on the bank . |
| 9 | It landed in the water just in front of where the boy was standing . |
| 10 | Maybe the boy was signalling to his mates and any moment there 'd be an ambush . |
| 11 | Maybe the boy was on the run and they had planes out searching for him . |
| 12 | Then , when the boy was n't looking in his direction he hurled it towards the pool . |
| 13 | The boy was making straight for the stone , holding his stick up and making little darting glances all round him . |
| 14 | The boy was still looking round him as if he expected someone to come . |
| 15 | The boy was kicking like crazy to get free of him but Philip held on . |
| 16 | The boy was as good as a murderer . |
| 17 | The boy was distracting him . |
| 18 | The boy was right . |
| 19 | The boy was mad rushing out into the open like that . |
| 20 | That the boy was just simple and given to playing stupid jokes . |
| 21 | For a brief moment the boy was alone and unobserved in the hot kitchen . |
| 22 | The boy was too shocked and frightened to speak . |
| 23 | Lennon shook Nathan off but the boy was already leaping down the stairs to where Zambia was writhing on the floor . |
| 24 | A brilliant bird alighted on the opposite branch , cocked its head to show the jewels set within it , settled , and then realized that the boy was there , a mere span away . |
| 25 | The boy was not then aware , of course , of how frequently an idling or unanchored mind can be disturbed by the accidental experience of receiving luminous images from out of clear , sharp light when it is itself cast in any sort of shadow . |
| 26 | The boy was pictured in a stilled movement that clearly represented the brief moment before he reached out and reached down to pluck the flower , a movement which would topple him over the edge to certain death . |
| 27 | Always the boy was about to plunge over the precipice . |
| 28 | The boy was for ever in danger . |
| 29 | The boy was for ever safe . |
| 30 | The boy was forgotten . |