Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The religion Tolstoy was to advocate was remarkably like the only one Vincent could wholeheartedly contemplate , ‘ a practical religion , not promising future bliss but bliss on earth . ’ |
| 2 | Her body , both young men were interested to discover , was remarkably like the statues of young women they had seen like , for instance , the Collector 's plaster cast of Andromeda Exposed to the Monster , though , of course , without any chains . |
| 3 | Other evidence , such as the demonstrations in favour of Sacheverell in 1710 , or in favour of peace in 1713 , seems to reinforce the view that by the end of Anne 's reign public opinion was overwhelmingly behind the Tories . |
| 4 | Her mother was dead like the badger she had seen last week in the woods , with its hair all stiff , and its mouth curled open . |
| 5 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 6 | My view was mostly of the aluminium saucepans dangling from a rail above the range . |
| 7 | When he did speak , it was mostly of the very distant past , remembering his brothers as boys . |
| 8 | The feeling was mostly in the eyes . |
| 9 | But where a parish was mostly in the hands of a small peasantry , and this was true of a great many parishes in Midland and eastern England , the effect would have been entirely different . |
| 10 | if you were having a girl it was mostly in the front , but er that was n't true really |
| 11 | Beech , there was n't much beech in , it was mostly round the mansion and at the back of the grounds . |
| 12 | The change that occurred was mostly before the Act , either despite the war or hindered by war conditions . |
| 13 | I know , woke up this morning she was , she was obviously cold , cat was right under the covers , snuggled right up to me and got her , her chin on me arm like that , I was asleep Justifying Nation , did you like that ? |
| 14 | Rosa Luxemburg was right on the dangers of nationalism . |
| 15 | Our screen was situated outside the office on a patch of grass , reached by the usual cinder path , and was right on the edge of the air field . |
| 16 | But for once the weather was fine , the place was right on the other side of the airfield on the edge of open country , so we wandered about a bit , picking wild flowers and so on , and on the way back in the truck who should we see approaching in the distance , on foot , but our old pal Flt Off Gregory . |
| 17 | Baffling , this , because it was right on the copy . |
| 18 | But undoubtedly he was right on the mark when he wrote in his essay on Thomas Parnell some words which might aptly be applied to many writers at present being collected : |
| 19 | Unlike so many beginners to Koi-keeping , Ken 's first pond was right on the button in terms of size , practicality and ease of maintenance . |
| 20 | And of course Lucille was right on the button . |
| 21 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 22 | I remember we cleaned it all up , and it was right on the boundary wall between property and . |
| 23 | With an Auriga fitted to the back of his Swift he was right on the pace at Brands Hatch , qualifying up the grid , only to have his hopes dashed when he was adjudged to have left the pits against a red light during practice . |
| 24 | it was a it was full pass inside to two fullbacks er , for the Southampton player that was running on this fullback shaded it away you know , guiding him out of it , he 's running to the e sa Smeichel came out to the edge of the area but he was like right on the edge as the player was coming to him , so he just let it roll a little bit further , he stopped it with his foot , the guy came and tackled him off got it instead of just picking it up with his hand , I mean he was actually in the area but like he was right on the edge and he took a step back |
| 25 | It was right on the main road and he was there years and years and years |
| 26 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 27 | I was n't going for his agreement or anyone else 's agreement — I was going for what I felt was right at the time , and as he 'd set me up as this person in his life , I advised him not to do it . |
| 28 | Because of the vast size of it and the difficulty of controlling it when sailing single-handed , the spinnaker was n't a sail he used much and it was right at the bottom at the aft end of the sail-locker . |
| 29 | ‘ He was right at the end , ’ admits Marjorie Gedge . |
| 30 | He shot him when he was right at the top . ’ |