Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spending 10 days in hospital she was back to watch the next home game , but from a safe distance . |
| 2 | In one case this had happened twice on the same land and was about to happen a third time for bulldozer had arrived to destroy a newly erected building where a woman stood in the way , she was one of the nuns helping in the area ; the defence was successful . |
| 3 | Luce was about to ask a second time where they were when the door was opened by a plump , middle-aged woman wearing a neat black dress . |
| 4 | I was about to enter the Sixth form at the outbreak of war . |
| 5 | In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director . |