Example sentences of "[adv] was [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Long was in his previous job for 35 years . |
| 2 | The only way he had let her down was about her nightmare . |
| 3 | That alone was worth it … |
| 4 | Sitting there they could see the whole world spread out until it reached the sky , and whatever there was all the world over was with them in Galleons Lap . |
| 5 | Second , Arabic negative particles come in front of the verb , so that an expression such as I had nothing against becomes literally ‘ not was for me any objection ’ , thus pushing the ‘ me ’ further away from thematic position . |
| 6 | For those of my readers who have a taste for figures , we produced 7½ kilowatts when there was plenty of water , which there usually was in our climate . |
| 7 | He 's far fonder of the bottle than he ever was of me . ’ |
| 8 | We would like to think that the number he announced yesterday was of his choosing . |
| 9 | The thought of going home was for her the final impossibility , but she could not see any satisfactory way of avoiding it . |
| 10 | They always was above us . |
| 11 | Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route . |
| 12 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 13 | ‘ When I started we used ink pens and sat on high stools — and the only way to add up was in your head , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Three days later was on her way to Australia to visit her married daughter and to take a well earned holiday . |
| 15 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 16 | She recognised the lean figure of Richard Blake moving towards the exhibition stand , and the last thing she wanted right now was for him to notice her . |
| 17 | She had no intention of putting herself deeper into Luke 's bad books ; all she wanted now was for her involvement with Woodline Design to proceed peacefully to its end . |
| 18 | The only disturbance on the water now was of their own making . |
| 19 | Her immediate thought now was of her mother and the boys , travelling home by train . |
| 20 | ‘ If only the hunting now was like it used to be when we were their age , ’ said Kalchu , nodding towards the twins . |
| 21 | I feel he really was at his peak that year . |
| 22 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 23 | This visit really was worth it . |
| 24 | He really was in something of a hurry and there was going to be nothing gained by engaging in either argument of fisticuffs with a cab driver . |
| 25 | The religious community that subsequently formed here was at its apogee in the twelfth century , when the present church was begun . |
| 26 | Furious as he undoubtedly was with her , she still felt a thrill to be so close to him . |
| 27 | Auckland Park , he said , was now known as Sandshoe Alley because everyone up there was on his uppers . |
| 28 | Er we trust if the post is doubled in the way it has frequently been in recent years and indeed was in my case , the Chancellor of the Duchy in brackets also as the Chairman of the Conservative Party to maintain the dignitary of the magistracy to make sure that there is a firm balance amongst magistrates who are appointed . |
| 29 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 30 | Now Fast Forward was for everyone was n't it , this one is n't ? |