Example sentences of "[vb infin] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I did n't know was of the ninety-plus pieces of work , both large and small , which Save The Children undertook in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Fishermen would never go out in a boat if anyone who could swim was on board , since the Fates might decide to give the man a chance to do so . |
| 3 | Last night as I 'm going to sleep all I could smell was like ashtray , you know ! |
| 4 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 5 | There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft . |
| 6 | My first dream I can ever remember was on the first day of exams . |
| 7 | The first house that I can remember was on Road . |
| 8 | And then erm mother of course , I can always remember was in the Guild and erm she would , the Guild in those days I 'm always telling the er people today , were very , very active women , very active erm and you 'd got them as councillors , magistrates erm come forward to all these positions . |
| 9 | The only linkage he could see was with Colonel Smith . |
| 10 | The only light he could see was in the lobby , and the only person in the lobby was an anxious girl with a clipboard who was waiting to greet him personally , and who seemed personally grateful for his skill in getting himself found and driven there by the company 's chauffeur . |
| 11 | Part of it as far as I could see was in India that i India India 's actually got it 's quite a success story for development in a lot of ways . |
| 12 | Another noise , a continuous whistle , very faint and high , she could n't decide was in the walls or in her ears . |
| 13 | From the very beginning , the Minoans were in contact with people of other cultures , and the only way that contact could happen was by sea . |
| 14 | What would happen was by no means certain in 1216 . |
| 15 | But the whole point of Pam being there , my being fostered , was if I could n't cope was for her to take over . |
| 16 | The masher dodged round Neil , lifted his fists , and said in what Neil could tell was by no means a confident manner , ‘ Throw that away , and put up yer dukes like a man ! ’ |
| 17 | DO NOT DISTURB was in her attitude as she squatted down in front of the coop and bent to peer in , navy-blue skirt rising above white cotton knickers … |
| 18 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 19 | The only mortgage I 'd get was for twenty odd thousand . |
| 20 | Viscount Kilmuir L.C. stated , at p. 596 , that the pursuers might recover whatever sum they might prove was in excess of such a charge as would have avoided undue discrimination against them , and he supported this by reference , inter alia , to Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 H.L. 226 . |
| 21 | Apparently , he never wore much jewellery , unlike the majority of nobles that visited him , but that which he did wear was of fabulously high value . |
| 22 | How long this would continue was in doubt as economic pressures increased . |
| 23 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 24 | Your speed they would say was in excess of 600 miles per hour , 611 to be precise ! |
| 25 | The only work I could find was with Clive 's main sharp-end competitor , a school offering short courses to businessmen on company accounts . |