Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night Penny Junor , author of the definitive biography of Prince Charles , said people were out to wreck the Royal Family . |
| 2 | They were about to arrest the whole band until I told them I was to blame . ’ |
| 3 | Within minutes , the men in Rawalpindi realized they were about to face the German battlecruiser , Scharnhorst . |
| 4 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |
| 5 | We had ample occupation watching the play of the clouds over the sides of the hills , and the bits of rugged moor and moss and flowing stream that enlivened the way ; but at a turning within some three miles of the inn of Kinlochewe , as we were about to pass the east-going mail gig with its complement of travellers , our driver jerked the horses into a ditch , which upset our machine and broke one of the springs . |
| 6 | The five-strong crew thought they were about to suffer the same disaster that struck another British Airways flight in June 1990 . |
| 7 | After spending 10 days in hospital she was back to watch the next home game , but from a safe distance . |
| 8 | The first two were closed already , but Boy looked in the windows anyway ; when he was out journeying the whole point was to stop and look at everything . |
| 9 | The Scum 's photographer was out harassing the royal family , so when a big assignment came in the editor had a problem — who could he send ? |
| 10 | Dr. Gillespie was about to examine the dead man when P.C. Clifford got back . |
| 11 | I was about to remind the hon. Gentleman that the present Government have been in office for the past 13 years and therefore must accept a great deal of responsibility . |
| 12 | She ran to the end of the alley and was about to scale the ten-foot wire fence when the bleeper attached to her belt suddenly shrilled into life . |
| 13 | As he was about to leave the little office he turned back . |
| 14 | Morton said the Princess 's astrologer , Penny Thornton of TODAY , revealed to him recently that she believed Diana was about to leave the Royal Family then . |
| 15 | I was about to say the magic belt . |
| 16 | He paused just long enough for her to wonder if he was about to do the decent thing and invite her to join him . |
| 17 | At the end of the passage , just as Raine was about to descend the short flight of stairs to the landing , Diana shot forward . |
| 18 | I , I was about to ask the same thing , yeah . |
| 19 | Alan Smith had just been appointed editor and was about to change the whole face of the paper , ditching those who revered Cilla as the greatest swinger on the block . |
| 20 | As she was about to pass the dark shape , something seemed to attach her skirt to the ground , and she had to stop . |
| 21 | Stanley also told the Committee that Scott was about to rebuild the Foreign Office and he would suggest ‘ that as unity of design is essential , Mr. Scott should be appointed to undertake the work ’ . |
| 22 | I was about to contact the American lawyer acting for the defendants , Mr William Rogers ( later to become famous as Secretary of State under Nixon ) , when the telephone rang and it was the New York Times enquiring when I was going to meet him . |
| 23 | A routine check as the vehicle was about to cross the Bavarian frontier ; insofar as one can speak of frontiers in this part of the world nowadays . |
| 24 | I felt that I was about to enter the real world , a world of miracle and meaning . |
| 25 | I was about to enter the Sixth form at the outbreak of war . |
| 26 | When Shanti was about to enter the local college of further education , a friend said to her , ‘ I do n't know what you 're going to do , Shanti . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She who had long since learned the necessary control to hide her feelings was about to suffer the greatest humiliation of all , the fall of angry tears which would betray her sensitivity , leaving her naked and vulnerable before this man whom she had begun to trust … åd his friends … |