Example sentences of "was [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was for just such occasions that Martha kept her best china locked securely in the glass cabinet and saved to get the front room furnished ‘ fit for visitors ’ . |
| 2 | It was for just such occasions that fish and chips were invented . ’ |
| 3 | If my aunts ' upbringing had prepared me for anything , it was for just this sort of agitation . |
| 4 | It was for precisely this reason that Russia , which had far more than any other State to fear from strong government and an active foreign policy in Sweden , did everything in its power to uphold that constitution ( see p. 266 ) . |
| 5 | The final curtain as it was for so many cinemas at this time , before they became cash and carry warehouses for bowls and colanders , brushes , clothes pegs , cloths and uncountable tons of things being produced in orange plastic . |
| 6 | ‘ Because I was for so many years a one man operation , ’ he says , ‘ I was always right at the centre of things . |
| 7 | Although the peasantry continued to account for over 80 per cent of the population , discontent among the urban poor and especially the industrial working class was of scarcely less significance than the unrest in the countryside . |
| 8 | " Oh , " Quiss said , shaking his great bearded head quickly as though the whole subject was of too little consequence to be worth discussing , " they said they 'd see what they could do . |
| 9 | But when the Telecom commercial arose , it was with very little reluctance that I went along , with most of the other ethnic actresses in England , to audition for the role of the Jewish momma , then masquerading under the name of Dora . |
| 10 | Su'a despatched Stewart and Hick within six deliveries , and Gooch was in even more trouble than most outside off against Morrison , then Watson . |
| 11 | It was in just this situation that the FAA originally decided to take an authoritative attitude and make it compulsory for flight crews to report dangerous incidents . |
| 12 | And then he remembered that it was in exactly this position in exactly this place that he had turned to face Lucy , less than three weeks ago , shouting obscenities at her . |
| 13 | It was in there this morning , in a way , it 's got , got out somewhere . |
| 14 | He was in as much turmoil as she . |
| 15 | ‘ She could n't walk , or bend , and getting upstairs to her own room was impossible because she was in too much pain , ’ says Janet . |
| 16 | It probably was n't , but he was in too much pain to argue , so he nodded , and immediately became Jimbo . |
| 17 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 18 | Businessman Ravi was in so much pain he cancelled his booking on the doomed airbus — which crashed in the Himalayas killing 113 people . |
| 19 | Lorry driver Bill , 51 , of Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , said yesterday : ‘ I was in so much pain I could n't dress myself after I had been examined and needed a wheelchair . ’ |
| 20 | When it poured down incessantly he saw only too clearly how he had got stuck , was at an impasse , handicapped as he was in so many respects . |
| 21 | We know more about movie-going in Chicago than about any other city and this is appropriate for it was in so many ways the symbolic city of those last decades before the First World War . |
| 22 | Karelius was in very little doubt . |
| 23 | Yet she was in precisely that situation . |
| 24 | Presumably , he was from outside that area . |
| 25 | On the contrary , virtually all our suggestions were very much in the mainstream of contemporary biblical scholarship , and it was from precisely this scholarship that much of our research derived . |
| 26 | It was to further these aims that the Federation launched a newsletter , E.F . |
| 27 | I was over there most days when I was a boy . ’ |
| 28 | It was at just that moment the bells began . |
| 29 | With coughing , he opened his eyes and began groaning which was at least some sign of progress , and I started looking about to see how we were going to get out of what appeared to be uncomfortably like a prison . |
| 30 | It was quite a new thing er in itself er you know it 's , you , like I say , you 've implied that er there was at least some degree of unrest on the shop floor . |