Example sentences of "was [prep] one [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that was required then was for one of these tormentors to fall ill or suffer a sudden accident and the old ‘ witch ’ was to blame . |
| 2 | It was during one of these stops that she heard a sound that made her start suddenly . |
| 3 | It was during one of these classes that Lyttelton , chatting with Fawkes , conceived the idea of forming his own band , which first came into existence in January 1948 . |
| 4 | It was during one of these sessions , when she lay under Tempy 's firm hands , that a thought occurred to Tamar . |
| 5 | It was through one of several friends who had remained loyal to him through the seven years of his ‘ jeopardy ’ , in two asylums , that his release was obtained : apparently Sherratt walked in and removed him from custody . |
| 6 | It was after one of those shows that I introduced Mick Jones to Joe Strummer for the first time . |
| 7 | Then she was like one of those seers who is at the same time a strange animal , like a priestess in a bear 's cave . |
| 8 | But he was in one of those moods . |
| 9 | She was in one of those things Marcus puts me in sometimes to carry me about . |
| 10 | An absentee , according to the 1950 Israeli law , includes anyone who , between 20 November 1947 and the ending of the State of Emergency , was ‘ a legal owner of any property situated in the area of Israel … and who , at any time during the said period , was a national or citizen of the Lebanon , Egypt , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Trans-Jordan , Iraq or the Yemen or was in one of these countries or in any part of Palestine outside the area of Israel … |
| 11 | It was in one of these fields , surrounding the tiny village of Guatiza that Val found a peasant woman harvesting the beetles from the underside of large , fleshy cactus leaves . |
| 12 | And his head was spinning from walking so far ; he walked everywhere , and though he stopped to eat every day when he was on one of these journeys of his he did not I expect eat especially properly . |
| 13 | It was on one of these occasions I made the acquaintance of Lawren Harris , the Canadian painter whose family fortune came from the Massey-Harris farm implement organisation . |
| 14 | It was on one of these occasions that Guy Gibson was ushered into " Cocky's ' presence and , just prior to his appearance , the AOC had given me a slip of paper with the names of about 20 pilots whom he asked me not to recruit — as a favour to him — which was his style . |
| 15 | It was on one of those occasions that the power and diversity of night time Radio One managed to lift a band out of newspaper print and into the public 's ears . |
| 16 | And it was on one of those nights late in May that Sam , Jackie and Rose made their assault on the great house . |