Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the amusement such indigenes provided , the months at anchor in so depressing a place wore on Magellan , and by late August he was off south again with the four ships that remained . |
| 2 | Almost certainly becoming part of the structure of the Bristol Brass & Copper Company ( 1705 ) the lease was for Tilberthwaite together with all the engines and instruments and " … all of the dressings or huddles of oar … " paying a duty on the ore of 14s. per " Tunn " and for lead 10s. a " Tunn " . |
| 3 | That meant that she had no money , and the all-day bus ticket was of course also in the purse . |
| 4 | The picture that emerged was of couples predominantly against the idea of adoption with contact . |
| 5 | That particular proposal was of interest only to the limited number of countries which have huissiers de justice , which prompted Professor Graveson when the issue was discussed in 1960 to express the traditional preference of the British Government for bilateral conventions , but the topic attracted more general interest and it was decided to re-examine the whole range of possibilities . |
| 6 | Now old wore a black thing afore his shirt , now because he was with ink all over him you see , but he he he did n't do this . |
| 7 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 8 | A PROBE was under way today into how a vintage jet crashed into moorland , killing its pilot . |
| 9 | But war was under way again in southern Angola , the team faced obvious difficulties and had to rely on information from the Angolan government . |
| 10 | Among the oils , British Petroleum was under pressure again after Thursday 's huge below-the-market transaction between Salomon Brothers and County NatWest . |
| 11 | But the 2-1 favourite was under pressure almost from the outset and betting slips were already being crumpled before the second circuit . |
| 12 | But Ma was in bed always by ten , Ethel even earlier . |
| 13 | Marius Steen was in London certainly on the Saturday night , because he was at the Sex of One … party . |
| 14 | ‘ I was in agony earlier in the week ; my eyes were stuck together every morning ! |
| 15 | He was in France again at the end of 1791 , and in the new year at Orleans evidently formed the relationship with Annette Vallon which resulted that December in the birth of their illegitimate daughter Caroline . |
| 16 | He was in France again in the spring of 1952 , and this was followed by a trip to the United States and then one to Scotland . |
| 17 | I was in Adelaide once with |
| 18 | A good example is Testimony of Light by Helen Grieves , who was in tune mentally with my friend , the late Frances Banks . |
| 19 | By 1939 one third of all the houses in England and Wales had been built since 1918 ; and extensive urban land absorption was in evidence particularly in the 1930s . |
| 20 | At any rate , he was in Denmark early in 1023 , making terms with Thorkell , whose position there had strengthened since his expulsion from England two years earlier to the extent that Cnut left it in his care and exchanged sons with him . |
| 21 | The future of Britain 's longest running chart show , Top Of The Pops , was in doubt tonight after a report that it was to be axed . |
| 22 | Yorkshire 's chief executive , Chris Hassall , was in Bombay yesterday with a one-year contract believed to be worth about £30,000 for the record-breaking teenager . |
| 23 | Surely any woman would have reacted the same way on discovering a supposed admirer was in reality only after her possessions ? |
| 24 | The proportion averaged one in five for Inner London as a whole , but at borough level ranged from almost 30 per cent in Haringey to under 10 per cent for Kensington and Chelsea and was in fact highest for an outer borough — Brent — at 33.5 per cent . |
| 25 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 26 | One of these clients was in fact still at home in March 1989 . |
| 27 | The organism was in fact far from being healthy . |
| 28 | So both Channel 4 and Godfrey Hodgson ( the programme 's presenter ) filed a complaint with the European Commission at Strasbourg , alleging that the order was in breach both of Article 10 and Article 13 . |
| 29 | ‘ I was in prison here in the war because I was an Italian . ’ |
| 30 | I was in Barwick again on Spring Bank Tuesday to see the maypole raised , but before that was the gala . |