Example sentences of "was [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert 's heart told him there was hope of seeing Flossie again . |
| 2 | ‘ My brother was the one who was playing guitar first , ’ he told me , ‘ so I was kind of influenced by him originally . ’ |
| 3 | He was kind of looking down and twiddling his pen , you know … and I mean I know it sounds stupid , but I did n't mind , I think I knew anyway . |
| 4 | By going to the household I was kind of taking the salt ; I was realistically enhancing my prospects of survival . |
| 5 | Had er , I was gon na say was n't in the game , I just thought he was kind of harden |
| 6 | Well he replied he was kind of flopping about . |
| 7 | I do n't know why I think maybe the , the tablets helped , but erm I was saying I was kind of having second thoughts whether I was wanting to go on the H R T or |
| 8 | But this lad make a mistake and he come down to the my sisters house , and my sister and her husband took him in and he 'd fallen and cut his brow , and after he was kind of sobered up he turned down and he said Not a story about this now James . |
| 9 | But I was kind of forced into that because it was only bass and guitar and I was trying to do as much rhythm as I could , but stab a few notes in here and there to make it sound like there was more than there really was . |
| 10 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |
| 11 | The two lancet windows were erected to the memory of Rev. Jonah Nalson who was Vicar of Halling for thirty three years . |
| 12 | Even the local vicar was n't immune , the Rev. Bartley Trimble who was vicar of Halling for many years was known as " Baggy " . |
| 13 | The other was part of dealing with the affairs of a builder who had emigrated . |
| 14 | The sound of the trains and the flash of their silvery sides through the trees was part of living at the School . |
| 15 | ( 1978 ) showed us it was part of policing the crisis . |
| 16 | Fixing door handles , making picture frames and doing all sorts of other odd jobs around the house was part of becoming stronger and learning to cope by herself . |
| 17 | It was not a conscious avoidance of the Debtors Prison but the more positive , good-humoured attitude which was part of Making Your Bed and Lying On It . |
| 18 | The very anonymity of everybody else in their entourage was part of making clear who was in charge . |
| 19 | But he thought there was advantage in giving it an opportunity to do so . |
| 20 | She had graduated from dancing to small parts at the Winter Gardens but because there was difficulty in getting money out of certain managements in Berlin , she was now a non-dancing Captain . |
| 21 | For a short period from 1952 to 1954 he was Professor of Conducting at the Warsaw Conservatoire . |
| 22 | There was talk of organising a rota . |
| 23 | There was talk of sending Edward for a short health-restoring visit to Swindon . |
| 24 | There was talk of developing a ‘ clean ’ bomb with little fall-out , a chimera at that time , which simply produced a lot of Carbon-14 which does not decay for literally thousands of years . |
| 25 | There was talk of setting up a Jewish state in Abyssinia , the Russians offered the Amur basin , as long as the population of the new republic was limited to 100,000 and several Latin American countries declared an interest in farmers who had a start capital of at least £500 . |
| 26 | There was talk of building an air-raid shelter for 250,000 people under Hampden Park , and while plans were being made to dig down beneath the city , in another park , Bellahouston , work was far advanced on the tremendous Empire Exhibition and a tower that would rise 300 feet above Bellahouston Hill , 470 feet above sea-level . |
| 27 | There was talk of enforcing the Phoenix King 's edict against the cult by military force . |
| 28 | There was talk of taking this whole matter to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 29 | I understood there was talk of taking up where you 'd both left off , ’ she reminded him . |
| 30 | There was talk of having a professional army and allowing more republican independence in military affairs while leaving the nuclear forces under single control . |