Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the country was due to wake up to a teeth-chattering 4C ( 39F ) — six degrees lower than average — with ground frost in many parts of the South , Midlands and Scotland . |
| 2 | He was due to join up with his old friend Irving Layton again , and former professor F.R. Scott at New York 's prestigious YM/YWCA centre on 92nd Street . |
| 3 | Flight TARO 205 was due to take off from Heathrow at 12.50 . |
| 4 | Following his visit to Du Pont , Sir Patrick was due to go on to Magherafelt , much of which was destroyed by a bomb explosion yesterday . |
| 5 | He was due to go up to the Blue Mountains that morning and she started having pains , she said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 8 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 9 | He had previously worked for the firm and was due to go back to it . |
| 10 | Pat saw just how true that was so the night that Ken was due to go out with one of his current close friends . |
| 11 | And then , out of the blue , as she was getting ready for bed on the evening before Kirsty was due to go off on holiday , Mrs Aitken tapped on Shiona 's bedroom door . |
| 12 | Mistakes can be costly and the author recalls one scheme where the beneficiary of a right of way waited until a house purchaser was due to move in before exercising his rights , thus deliberately causing the maximum disruption to the developer . |
| 13 | The Quiberon was due to head back to France at 9am with several huge lorries of fish for France and Spain on board . |
| 14 | Nigger told him he was due to start back on the tugs on the following Monday . |
| 15 | Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week . |
| 16 | Having looked at the growing success of the Editing for Industry awards and noted the fact that Alan Peaford was due to step down after a three-year stint in the chair , I decided to ask him to continue in the post for my year of office . |
| 17 | However , the region 's greatest prize , California , which was due to gain up to seven congressional seats through re-districting , eluded the Democrats . |
| 18 | In the Far East , the future of Hong Kong , an immensely important financial and manufacturing centre , where the British lease was due to run out in 1997 , was left in abeyance by both the British and the Chinese governments , in the post-Mao era . |
| 19 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Jan had one problem with an actress who was due to throw up in a scene . |
| 22 | It was pleasant to stroll around on an evening such as this , thinking productively about the work which would make his name ( and his fortune ) and restore to him the sense of achievement he had so greatly enjoyed as an undergraduate journalist and Union wit . |
| 23 | At first it was pleasant to lie back on the straw mattress and relax . |
| 24 | It was odd coming over as a tragic heroine . |
| 25 | At all times it was possible to listen in on interviews and to monitor the interviewer 's work on a control screen . |
| 26 | To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed . |
| 27 | The duration of the early FDRs was sometimes very long — as much as 200 flying hours and more in some cases — so it was possible to check back over many flights how the aircraft had behaved . |
| 28 | It was possible to walk in without pushing or being pushed , though there was no question of finding a seat . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was possible to get on to the roof by the window and climb up the slope to the wall and the projecting archway . |