Example sentences of "it was [prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was on the fifteenth of April that they waylaid the lord of Parfois on his own ground , in the thick copse of scrub-oak and brushwood threaded by the narrow path that linked the main approach of the castle with the highway to Shrewsbury . |
| 3 | It was of the two of us leaning up against the Arch of Titus in Rome — we had bullied some fellow tourist into taking it for us . |
| 4 | All I can say is that it was for the best of reasons . ’ |
| 5 | It was from the first of December for the address although they were actually |
| 6 | But , even so , pride would not allow Fabia to kowtow to anyone , so that it was in the coolest of tones , her expression wooden and unyielding , that she opened her mouth and asked him bluntly , ‘ Are you prepared to give me an interview or not ? ’ |
| 7 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |