Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 2 | Viscount Kilmuir L.C. stated , at p. 596 , that the pursuers might recover whatever sum they might prove was in excess of such a charge as would have avoided undue discrimination against them , and he supported this by reference , inter alia , to Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 H.L. 226 . |
| 3 | Last night as I 'm going to sleep all I could smell was like ashtray , you know ! |
| 4 | Fishermen would never go out in a boat if anyone who could swim was on board , since the Fates might decide to give the man a chance to do so . |
| 5 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 6 | There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft . |
| 7 | The only linkage he could see was with Colonel Smith . |
| 8 | The only light he could see was in the lobby , and the only person in the lobby was an anxious girl with a clipboard who was waiting to greet him personally , and who seemed personally grateful for his skill in getting himself found and driven there by the company 's chauffeur . |
| 9 | Part of it as far as I could see was in India that i India India 's actually got it 's quite a success story for development in a lot of ways . |
| 10 | From the very beginning , the Minoans were in contact with people of other cultures , and the only way that contact could happen was by sea . |
| 11 | The masher dodged round Neil , lifted his fists , and said in what Neil could tell was by no means a confident manner , ‘ Throw that away , and put up yer dukes like a man ! ’ |
| 12 | The only mortgage I 'd get was for twenty odd thousand . |
| 13 | The only work I could find was with Clive 's main sharp-end competitor , a school offering short courses to businessmen on company accounts . |
| 14 | What you ought to do was to said to him give me a deposit |
| 15 | The limitation which used to apply was with regard to the value of the action . |
| 16 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 17 | What would happen was by no means certain in 1216 . |
| 18 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 19 | How long this would continue was in doubt as economic pressures increased . |
| 20 | Your speed they would say was in excess of 600 miles per hour , 611 to be precise ! |
| 21 | The first house that I can remember was on Road . |