Example sentences of "[vb past] was [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was developed originally to promulgate priestly or legislative initiatives , and since these were collective and in some sense impersonal productions , what the writer meant was to all intents and purposes recoverable from what he wrote down . |
| 2 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |
| 3 | In 1984 , the Court of Session in Edinburgh ( Hay/Briton against Central Regional Council ) refused a 53 year old grandmother custody or access to her six year old grandchild , though it was agreed that the ‘ most significant relationship ’ the child had was with this grandmother . |
| 4 | All I had was in that crate , its death |
| 5 | ‘ Best investment I ever made was in that place . |
| 6 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |