Example sentences of "was [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our bilateral aid the main need was for carefully targeted and flexible assistance in the form of advice , skills and training and our response in this area for our bilateral aid was the creation of the know how fund for the former Soviet Union and for central and Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | My friend , whose ablutions are an elaborate , and to him , essential part of his pre-sermon warm up , was for once lost for words . |
| 3 | He was tall , dark and far from handsome ; she was small , chirpy and was for ever brushing Kev 's shoulders free of scurf . |
| 4 | According to Rupert Sutcliffe , the most senior member of the Department , and its most pertinacious gossip , there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other . |
| 5 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 6 | For him the synthesis was asymptote towards which he was for ever approaching without ever quite reaching it ; it was a reality , incapable of complete realization . |
| 7 | Mrs Robins comes over as a cold , strict woman who was for ever giving orders . |
| 8 | Five days later , Monica died , but Augustine 's memory was for ever engraved by the transforming reality of their communion together in ‘ delighting in God ’ . |
| 9 | Her mother 's door was for ever opening and closing , opening and closing , tempting her with affection , then , when she approached , dropping to crush her . |
| 10 | Michael Middleton has argued that Minton 's search for stimuli in exotic places and his febrile manner of living reflects a longing to escape self-consciousness and to live in the moment : ‘ He was for ever dashing off , afraid he might be missing something round the corner — another party , an evening at the Jazz Club , a drink on the Soho circuit . ’ |
| 11 | My father probably went over the [ Shakespeare ] plays with me when I was doing my home-work , but his taste was for directly elevating philanthropic and progressive literature . |
| 12 | Irrespective of the precise role of linearity in the Hebrew notion of time , it was for long assumed that the eschatological nature of that concept greatly influenced , by way of Christianity , the development of our modern idea of time 's unidirectional non-cyclic nature . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't have my car back today ? ’ she asked quickly , trying for all she was worth not to panic when he shook his head . |
| 14 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 15 | The European Space Agency ( ESA ) was of officially born in May 1975 , following a decision to merge ELDO and ESRO and to create a strong European space policy-making body . |
| 16 | It would have been tempting for an adviser to have thought in 1968 that a solus agreement involving the exclusive purchase of petrol was of sufficiently established commercial importance to fall within that class of cases to which Lord Wilberforce said the restraint of trade doctrine would not apply . |
| 17 | The other trend was towards immediately killing the animal . |
| 18 | He could not know it but to talk of aborting Catherine , who was a living child , a person , was like coolly contemplating murder . |
| 19 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 20 | ‘ You thought I was in here slitting my wrists , did n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | He said to Lyn , " The young chap from Bale 's was in here asking for you . |
| 22 | Equally , however , if the only learning experience one encountered was in closely programmed format there would be no scope for those intuitive leaps and imaginative forays most of us remember , or for those times in which one pursues a sudden enthusiasm almost to saturation . |
| 23 | Hopkins was completely taken with Dolben , who was nearly four years his junior , and his private journal for confession the following year proves how absorbed he was in imperfectly suppressed erotic thoughts of him . |
| 24 | A main way in which many firms were failing to maximise their value was in not exploiting the tax incentive to borrow . |
| 25 | Where I made my mistake was in not checking back with his number in Freiburg at the edge of the Black Forest . |
| 26 | Superstar Alan Rickman was in quietly joking mood as he arrived in town to play the Bard 's most quoted hero in a spectacular production of the world 's best known play . |
| 27 | No book went in and where the woman put the figures in last week that was the end of it , it was in there to pick up , but it was still thirty quid out , so Pam started doing it |
| 28 | I was in there trying to win . |
| 29 | I mean I would n't ever think it a good idea to encourage women to leave the home if they thought that their job was in there looking after small children , but it 's very obvious nowadays that a very large number of women do n't want to in the home any more . |
| 30 | He had been given a tough assignment and he was in there fighting like hell on behalf of the British vehicle division . |