Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He was due to go up to the Blue Mountains that morning and she started having pains , she said .
2 The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit .
3 Nigger told him he was due to start back on the tugs on the following Monday .
4 In the meantime , work was proceeding on the Croydon — Sutton line and the time limit specified in the Act was due to run out by the end of the year .
5 At first it was pleasant to lie back on the straw mattress and relax .
6 To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed .
7 In fact , however , the Council 's composition was not random , as two kinds of evidence show : evidence for the high social class of individual members , and evidence that it was possible to get on to the Council in a given year if you wanted to .
8 It was possible to get on to the roof by the window and climb up the slope to the wall and the projecting archway .
9 The servants would know whether it was possible to get back down the valley .
10 The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer .
11 At Limoges the Young King was free to go over to the attack .
12 Her grandfather 's insistence that she was free to go out into the world now and take a course of training was so much nonsense .
13 Back in the Company 's suite after debriefing — ‘ You 've proved , ’ said Nils without praise — Jezrael was free to go out on the town .
14 I had said that her view was unreasonable and Syl was free to go out in the evening as he wished .
15 However , she was prepared to go along with the advisory teacher 's point of view in the sessions and reassured herself concerning her own fears by using whole-class lessons to reinforce what she felt pupils should have discovered .
16 Now he was prepared to live up to the role .
17 The ANC 's first warning that it was prepared to pull out of the CODESA talks came on June 21 , when the organization 's president , Nelson Mandela , declared that the negotiations process was " in tatters " .
18 For months SCO has resisted adopting SVR4 even though SCO co-founder Doug Michels recently told Unigram.X he had finally ‘ bitten the ideological bullet ’ and was prepared to step out on the SVR4 road provided it could get the right terms ( UX No 398 ) .
19 It was exciting to travel up on the night train and to find Granny waiting beside the fire in the hall , as exhilarated by the festivities as any of her grandchildren .
20 Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ?
21 While West Germany , for example , was willing to go along with the proposal ( but only if there was a joint system of ECSC subsidy financing ) , the net importers of coal within the Six — France , Italy and the Netherlands — were totally hostile to the notion of national contributions to a joint financing policy .
22 One joke had a candidate for the Waffen-SS being asked at the muster whether he was willing to sign on for the duration of the war ; to which , he replied : ‘ No , at first only for twelve years . ’
23 But she did , and was another won over by the famous charm .
24 Major Match was favourite to follow up in the latest running of the Kempton contest , but had a rough time , getting knocked around before trailing in last behind Far Senior .
25 But I was afraid to go back to the village .
26 And as he closed the window of his room against the night frost , he was afraid to look out on the hills in case he heard angels sing and the other folk in the home would dismiss the story because of the two , long drawn out drinks he had before sleep closed down another Christmas Day .
27 Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off .
28 I was delighted to take over with the CIT in the UK in such good heart , locally and nationally , thanks to the initiatives set up by my predecessors being so well supported by the Uk Board , as well as Section Chairman and their committees .
29 Léonie was delighted to get out of the house .
30 The courthouse windows were open but the radiators below them were hot ; it took several hours for any changes in setting to make themselves felt through the massive heating system , and it was impossible to keep up with the irrational temperament of the month .
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