Example sentences of "was [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was for was n't it ? |
| 2 | all that cork tip was for was to stop it on your lips |
| 3 | One was for being a substitute in a local soccer cup final . |
| 4 | He decided it was worth being polite . |
| 5 | Sometimes it was through being treated as more grown-up , more mature , not a child anymore . |
| 6 | My uncle bought one about ten year ago and all there was about was Betamax then . |
| 7 | There was no formal power play there , it was just that the very fabric of his psyche was about being central , the central person , the interesting person and everybody collaborated in that . |
| 8 | the one I was after is just called Cher |
| 9 | It was after being cast adrift in a longboat by the mutinous crew of Bounty that Bligh managed to make his monumental open-boat voyage with a handful of faithfuls to safety , and ultimately revenge , on the Indonesian island of Timor . |
| 10 | And then the job was on the following days was after be shooting rabbits to feed them do you see . |
| 11 | Pipeline was easy to judge since it was basically a one-manoeuvre event : what everyone was after was the tube . |
| 12 | What he was after was not bank funding but advice on European Community finance that might be available . |
| 13 | What Lazarsfeld was after was a way of searching for patterns in data , patterns exhibited between variables , and patterns that , if confirmed regularly across studies , could stand as statements of empirical relationships between phenomena . |
| 14 | But Denis was past being surprised by anything Cohen did . |
| 15 | Susceptible as Hardy was to intense emotional experience — one of his earliest memories was of being moved to tears by his father playing the violin — and to pretty girls , Emma 's attraction for him must also have rested in the circumstances of their meeting in a wild and beautiful setting , and in their mutual loneliness . |
| 16 | In spite of which , the impression they gave was of being identical , and it was left to the owners to give their property whatever signs of individuality they could , by making neat little gardens , or by not doing so , by cleaning the windows once a month , or by not doing so . |
| 17 | As Robert Walpole explained to his brother : " Their cry and complaint was of being underworked and starved by the Irish . " |
| 18 | The other thing I was interested in was the increase of ele of occupational therapists and I just wondered what the realistic expectation was of being able to recruit them because as far as I know they are a scarce resource er and not easy to find . |
| 19 | It was like being in a loo that rose and fell . |
| 20 | Working for Malcolm and Vivienne was like being in the army . |
| 21 | It was like being in a supermarket during late-night shopping , with that overpowering sensation that you are losing your space . |
| 22 | But , as we can now see , it was like being a science fiction writer really . |
| 23 | It was like being given an ice-cube when you needed hot soup . |
| 24 | Through the glass and the vines overhead could be seen the blue sky and the white clouds , so that it was like being both indoors and out at the same time . |
| 25 | It was like being a naughty seaside postcard . |
| 26 | It was like being in the top of the oak tree again , except this time the shimmer of woodland was transformed into the dream-like rhythm of words . |
| 27 | It was like being bathed in honey . |
| 28 | It was like being sick : she loathed herself , but there was an awful relief in doing it . |
| 29 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 30 | At eleven the earth was dry and thirsty , the field baking : it was like being fired in a kiln . |