Example sentences of "[prep] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know . |
| 2 | The martel de fer was a type of mace used by both horse and foot soldiers , and was often carried by archers in preference to the sword . |
| 3 | Pipeline was easy to judge since it was basically a one-manoeuvre event : what everyone was after was the tube . |
| 4 | What he was after was not bank funding but advice on European Community finance that might be available . |
| 5 | What Lazarsfeld was after was a way of searching for patterns in data , patterns exhibited between variables , and patterns that , if confirmed regularly across studies , could stand as statements of empirical relationships between phenomena . |
| 6 | What she had been after was a specified date and time . |
| 7 | The last client I looked after was none other than David Niven . ’ |
| 8 | to wear after was it ? |
| 9 | And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it . |
| 10 | All I could think of was that joke — ‘ What has four legs and an arm ? |
| 11 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 12 | The one thing we never thought of was to check the wheels . |
| 13 | The Attorney-General also had to establish that the information complained of was the subject matter of the pending action against the Guardian and the Observer . |
| 14 | ‘ Better files than people , I told him , but that did not interest him : all he could think of was the files . ’ |
| 15 | What I was in search of was my son . |
| 16 | When Philip woke , the first thing he thought of was the pheasants . |
| 17 | All he could think of was that he wanted to sneeze . |
| 18 | Suddenly , all he was aware of was one single , frozen thought : |
| 19 | All he could think of was the small , dark , murderous hole . |
| 20 | All I could think of was to give a sickly smile and to murmur , ‘ I think you are probably right . ’ |
| 21 | All he could think of was : ‘ Keep him in a good mood ! |
| 22 | Yet everything he talked of was clear and at the tip of his tongue . |
| 23 | The thriftiness she often boasted of was also in evidence — despite their opulent appearance the costumes cost just £3,000 . |
| 24 | He apologised to readers and to Philips Dictation Systems : ‘ Could of was simply a typesetting error that slipped passed the keenest eyes ’ , he wrote . |
| 25 | There were no doors in the walls , but she could tell from the noise that the building she thought she had come out of was a pub . |
| 26 | And whatever else the decor was or the show was that night , whatever city we were all supposed to be in , one thing that was always the same and that Madame never got rid of was the ceiling . |
| 27 | Well , the player I was most afraid of was Jack Nicklaus . |
| 28 | No I thought to myself you do not deserve this death and the you I was thinking of was not the fish itself but all those people standing on the bank . |
| 29 | ‘ It kind of was , but it was more that he was forced into that position . |
| 30 | The only thing he could think of was he was a good swimmer — and a fat lot of good that was to him . |