Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 2 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 3 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 4 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 5 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 6 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 7 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |