Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first months , when hostilities were expected to last for only a few months , party activity was hardly affected at all . |
| 2 | They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens . |
| 3 | The trial was expected to last at least a year . |
| 4 | The British aircraft industry was expected to shrink to only a fifth of its existing size , giving the USA an enormous head start . |
| 5 | I was expecting to wait till about a quarter past seven . |
| 6 | He spent the first 12 months of his Hobart House reign in obscurity , in spite of repeated leaked reports suggesting the number of British mines was set to tumble to around a dozen . |