Example sentences of "[adj] was [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was about something else . |
| 2 | I think this was at its most obvious after Leeds scored their second goal . |
| 3 | This was at my feet and I just picked it up . ’ |
| 4 | This was between him and Lee . |
| 5 | What with piles of ironing ( this was during my disorganised period ) , mountains of books ( I refuse to be parted from them ) , and various bric-a-brac , my flat always looked like a junkyard . |
| 6 | There is no question at all that he meant any harm ; but you will no doubt appreciate how uncomfortable a situation this was for me . |
| 7 | ‘ All this was for me , you know ! ’ |
| 8 | This was for him the beginning of an independent ‘ second career ’ after leaving the army . |
| 9 | Only Shelley , Rosie and Miguel knew what a momentous day this was for them . |
| 10 | This was for her pretty well the end of the matter . |
| 11 | There were times when it was a strain , but you had in the front of your mind that this was for your friend , and that deepened the friendship . ’ |
| 12 | He threw me across the front seat , and the choir applauded — whether this was for my benefit or to register approval for Quigley 's strong right arm was not clear . |
| 13 | ‘ Where can I find this woman ? ’ the stranger asked quickly , showing in his pale face how important this was to him . |
| 14 | Perhaps , she thought , that was what all this was to him . |
| 15 | If you think back to joining the College , you will realise how important this was to you . |
| 16 | However strange this was to us , it was genuinely moving to the Chinese audience , and Comrade Chang , the cadre , sitting on my left , was in tears at the end of a sequence mourning the death of Chou . |
| 17 | The first evidence that this was on its way was noticed towards the end of March , when a patch of snow just below and to the south of the Main Crater began to melt , and simultaneously , activity in the North-East Crater began to die down . |
| 18 | This was on my 34th birthday last March . |
| 19 | This was like something out of nightmare . |
| 20 | This was after his round . |
| 21 | If one looks at the speeches , reads the pamphlets and studies the discussions of Councils one sees that an aggressive political tone was never far from the surface and this was before their wholesale involvement in the debates over the 1902 Education Act . |
| 22 | This was before it happened or when it happened ? you did n't have sort of intimations that something was going to happen ? |
| 23 | This was before my time ; I joined the college in 1965 at the tail end of the bitterness , when similar disagreements forced another Nobel-prize-winning master , Sir Nevill Mott , to resign . |
| 24 | ‘ This was among them , and that 's why I came here . ’ |
| 25 | This was unlike him . |
| 26 | The acceptance of the R.A.F. mission , with its hardship of travel to distant and nasty places and audiences of anything but the kind he was humanly fitted to deal with , lonely , cheerless , embarrassed journeys leaving little behind but doubt whether any seed had fallen on good soil ; ali this was in its way an imitation of St. Paul . |
| 27 | This was in its organization and principles an increasingly ‘ bureaucratic ’ pattern of society , in which authority was usually legitimized by results . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew your father and none of this was in him . |
| 29 | Failure to do this was in their Lordships ' view a material irregularity : Reg. v. Maguire [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 767 , 782 . |
| 30 | Originally this was in whatever form the manager thought best , flowers for the wife , gold pen with motto , etc . |