Example sentences of "it was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well it was beside the point because you , you had an appointment did n't you ? |
| 2 | It was across the before I could shout and say come back . |
| 3 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 4 | It was past the SELL BY date too . |
| 5 | He was close enough to hear the skid of rubber on tarmac , and then it was past the building and away out of sight . |
| 6 | It was amidst the glare from flash-happy Paparazzi and marauding tv camera crews that Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA announced its alliance with Eo Corp , the Mountain View , California-based developer of the 440 and 880 personal communicators ( CI No 2,124 ) . |
| 7 | No I think it was down the side I think he said . |
| 8 | Suddenly I say one of the ‘ Stop Checkpoint ’ signs that are ubiquitous in Ulster , but it was outside the Leggykelly , a pub just five hundred yards south of the border . |
| 9 | It was accepted by the Highways and Planning departments that it was outside the scope of the methodology to progress the technical solutions to the point of implementation , which , in any event , could not have been undertaken by the FAOR team due to their disbandment after the final report had been rendered to the European Commission . |
| 10 | Hence it was outside the scope of s 6 of the Act , which applied only where interest was due in respect of a particular period . |
| 11 | In that case the remedy required — that the consent of the Attorney-General be obtained for the institution of any prosecution for criminal libel : see p. 484 — was one which it was outside the power of the court to introduce . |
| 12 | It was outside the fence , half-surrounded by columns belonging to the grounds of a former house . |
| 13 | I saw Lukic launch into the tackle and it looked , for all the world , like it was going to end up as a foul but I could n't see if it was outside the area . |
| 14 | Oh my god I do n't know what erm oh well it was toward the end of the week was n't it ? |
| 15 | The man that was on the mower , they had an eye to that they would just wait until it was off the the Where it was cut you see ? |
| 16 | He actually picked up Angy 's phone … it was off the hook and covered in blood as if she 'd tried to use it to call for help . |
| 17 | It was off the fortune teller . |
| 18 | Oh it was off the machine ? |
| 19 | Then , with the coffee and barmcakes running low it was onto the finals . |
| 20 | No man at his age ever had a straighter back , that we were sure of , straight and strong , it was as the ground ash stick he always carried . |
| 21 | Where the church impinged it was as the representative of property and coercion rather than as a meaningful organisation . |
| 22 | Increasingly , the monarchy was involved in courtly display , and it was as the administrator of such functions that Cawarden was to win fame , providing costumes for men and horses and complicated scenic devices . |
| 23 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 24 | But it was as the great leader in efforts to save the environment and the natural treasures of the world that he will be longest remembered . |
| 25 | Significantly , it was as the population recovered that one again sees widespread movements of social unrest . |
| 26 | It was as the pair of them were passing through the doorway into the hall that Jake turned for a moment to catch Shiona 's eye . |
| 27 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 28 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 29 | It was about the height of Phoebe 's thigh and , after a flustered second , she remembered that decision with an instant clarity . |
| 30 | It was about the Shah and the glories of the country . |