Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 2 | It would not be long before the English were at Dunbar , now that Southern Scotland lay wide open to their advance . |
| 3 | By then , the British were in Mandalay and the Americans had landed in Luzon . |
| 4 | This was at Cumbernauld ( 1956 ) , 15 miles to the north-east of the city on the Stirling Road , another addition to the heart of the industrial belt between Forth and Clyde . |
| 5 | well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started |
| 6 | ‘ This was at Chelsea Barracks ? ’ |
| 7 | This was at Bangor and then I got another number and then I got told that they now have the direct organisation |
| 8 | Go out on the field ( this was at Farnborough ) ; there 's hoards of them , the really sophisticated ones use little pocket memo recorders instead of notebooks ’ . |
| 9 | This was at Anthony Coburn 's insistence , who felt there was something ‘ not quite right ’ about an unspoken-for teenage girl travelling about the Universe with an old man . |
| 10 | This was at Gloucester Road , or near it , and though the tall buildings are very close to the line here , they are not close enough for anyone inside to reach or even touch a passing train . |
| 11 | This was at Fred 's suggestion and with the acclaim of all the players , and tells something of the charisma of the man |
| 12 | He talked glowingly about nuclear powered aircraft but this was beyond Argentina 's ability and so they settled for more conventional designs . |
| 13 | The Forge Houses at that time were taken by John Ashburner , of Coniston , to operate as a cotton mill ; this was during November 1787 at which date they were still on lease to Roe & Co . |
| 14 | When this was with Mr . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought this was for North Yorkshire , ’ complained an old lady . |
| 16 | This was for Axel . |
| 17 | This was to John Heiman , the Defence Secretary , the only other person present . |
| 18 | This was to Eleanor of Aquitaine and it was celebrated just eight weeks alter her first marriage , to King Louis VII of France , had been annulled . |
| 19 | ( Partly because he remembers how ‘ cool ’ this was of John Peel , Fred sometimes now grabs fan letters and phones up the writer , ‘ to freak them out ’ . ) |
| 20 | However , this was on PKB 's Amex card , the pasta had been delicious , the Frascati had flowed , the zabaglione was on its way and all was right with the world . |
| 21 | This was from Maj Johann Christie DSO . |
| 22 | This was from Miss Belle . |
| 23 | This was after Wolfenden , of course , but before the change in the law . |
| 24 | This was after Mrs. Dennis ' death , but in any event a receiving order does not operate to divest a debtor of his property . |
| 25 | Some were castrated , although this was against Menelik 's express orders . |
| 26 | The most striking example I have ever seen of this was in Morocco , in North Africa . |
| 27 | This was in December at Kidbrooke School . |
| 28 | ‘ This was in South Africa about — what ? — six years ago , ’ he told Giles and Cavell . |
| 29 | This was in September 1989 and he has been in prison since . |
| 30 | This was in February 1982 , ten years ago . |