Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I was in the wrong place , the wrong part of the town . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 4 | So it was to the same mortuary as Jacob that the undertaker 's van took the two coffins . |
| 5 | So it was with the other hostages . |
| 6 | So it was from the early 1960s that his career became inextricably linked to its growing success . |
| 7 | So what was with the sudden change ? |
| 8 | Hammond was looking down , his shoulders hunched forward , as if he knew already what was in the second file . |
| 9 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
| 10 | Once more I was on the short list . |
| 11 | The corporation had assumed responsibility for the site in 1945 and had purchased the land in 1957 , although technically it was in the rural district area . |
| 12 | An hour later I was in the little bedroom again . |
| 13 | Emily 's mind was partly on the enjoyable walk she had taken with Heinrich , who had unexpectedly proved a most delightful companion during the week ; partly on the bright green foulard dress she had seen on sale at Bobby 's in Margate yesterday when they visited the famous menagerie at the Grand Hall by the Sea , and partly it was on the coming evening . |
| 14 | Ironically it was during the very period that heroin was covertly establishing a hold in the community that concern about adolescents misusing solvents was the subject of official response . |
| 15 | Inevitably it was into the long rows of tents , pavilions and blanketed men that they plunged . |
| 16 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 17 | Now he was in the front line . |
| 18 | ‘ Ten years ago I was in the tenth grade , my second year in high school . |
| 19 | But even here I was on the very lip of the world , peering over one of the suture lines of the globe and into the darkness of yesterday . |
| 20 | Now here I was in the greatest race of all time , with four men under ten seconds . |
| 21 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 22 | Oh yeah , well it was during the nineteen fourteen eighteen war . |
| 23 | Well it was like the two soldiers and the one person just holds it the other person just tried and knock the head off . |
| 24 | Here he was with the journalistic scoop of his career and everyone else would be able to run it before him ! |
| 25 | After all , the local cinema , the Cach , had been his dream world and here he was in the biggest Cach in the world doing more or less what he had seen ‘ the greats ’ doing in the Thirties . |
| 26 | For George Melly it was in the late 1940s and '50s ‘ the antidote to the grey and worthy austerity of the post-war world ’ . |
| 27 | Luckily he was in the Far East at the time . ’ |
| 28 | Yet simultaneously and apparently paradoxically it was during the nineteenth century that the debate about sexuality exploded . |
| 29 | And I 've said that you know I 'd rather it was on the soft but whether it will get |
| 30 | Philip did n't know much about driving but he thought that maybe she was in the wrong gear . |