Example sentences of "was [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not as obliging as she was about disappearing before the weekly workshop . |
| 2 | Mansell last night admitted he was considering driving in the infamous Indy sports car series in the USA — despite fears about safety . |
| 3 | It was like stepping from the main street into a cobbled alley 's curiosity shop — that shock of surprise to discover again what an intricate and peculiar organ the imagination is , what extravagant uses it has found for time . |
| 4 | It was like stumbling upon a forgotten battlefield , which in a sense was exactly what it was . |
| 5 | She said it was like living in a good hotel . |
| 6 | There was his friend Barbara Rubin , Andy Warhol , but , most of all , once in touch with the poet himself , observes Miles , ‘ it was like plugging into the main switchboard — he knows everyone ’ . |
| 7 | Entering the village was like passing under an invisible triumphal arch , quite splendid . |
| 8 | It was the first chance to see Diana close up since the long honeymoon and it was like looking at a different woman . |
| 9 | It was like looking at a miniature version of himself . |
| 10 | Before Auque 's news , it was like looking at a huge , dark landscape whose features were indistinguishable from one another . |
| 11 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 12 | Apart from the influence of many young voters who have no memory of what it was like to live under a Labour government , the biggest thing going for Labour in this election is an Englishman 's sense of fair play . |
| 13 | This is what it was like to live in the pre-scholastic age . |
| 14 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 15 | The storm lasted five days , and to ride over Orkney after that was like riding through a great field the day after beggars had left it . |
| 16 | It was like falling into a black well , where you knew there would never be light , or it was like being cast adrift on a night ocean when you knew no ships would ever pass . |
| 17 | Being with him was like shading under a massive tree with deep roots , during a long hot summer and I shall always cherish that time . |
| 18 | It was like waiting for the Second Coming . |
| 19 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 20 | For the novice , who had spent a mere two months in training in the city , far from home in Scottish pit village or Norfolk town , the introduction to beat work was like plunging into a cold shower . |
| 21 | It was like diving into a huge space , a timeless space . |
| 22 | It was like coming across an embarrassing old photograph of herself . |
| 23 | It was like sitting on a runaway steam engine , holding the funnel with a brolly . ’ |
| 24 | After the Palestinian militancy of Lebanon , it was like staring at the wrong side of a mirror : Palestine through the looking glass . |
| 25 | Looking at the food was like staring into an abdominal incision . |
| 26 | The scent was the first thing : it was like walking into a peach-canning factory . |
| 27 | It was like going to the Holy Land , or being the Knights of the Round Table , Sir Perceval I think it was , and your dad suddenly said he was going to take you to see the Holy Grail . |
| 28 | I had no conception of what it was like to play for an honest-to-god institution until Walter put me straight . |
| 29 | For me , going on a strict vegan diet where all animal products were banned , where there was no place for tea or coffee , where even fish , eggs , salt and sugar were forbidden , was like leaping from a warm bed into the icy seas of Antarctica . |
| 30 | A British undercover agent in one of David Cornwell 's [ John le Carré 's ] novels is so exasperated by platitudes by a superior that he exploded within himself that it was like working for a bloody clergyman . |