Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |
| 2 | At about 07.50 , a series of deafening detonations was heard , and a great black cloud was seen to issue out from near the top of Mt Pelee . |
| 3 | Ideas and information were exchanged , and an attempt was made to map out in very general terms what the two nations had in common in the Middle East . |
| 4 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 5 | Erm er , very concerned as to what it was going to lead up to up , and hoping , you know , against hope that 's you were n't going to be involved in anything like that . |
| 6 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 7 | And then after I had my daughter I was going to go back in there but at the time it was just like a junior 's position , |
| 8 | Recipes for this " black tart stuff " as it was called appear in at least two cookery books of the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | Simultaneously , it was being discovered that the ill-chosen or ill-formed materials and techniques used in the new build of the sixties was beginning to break down after only ten years : autopsies on building failures indicated that earlier cavalier attitudes to the intricacies of new technological phenomena such as interstitial condensation and concrete additives , called for newer skills and deeper understanding found only in the education and training of the building surveyor . |
| 10 | A stranger entered the bidding and soon gave the impression that he was determined to carry on for as long as was required to obtain the Baron . |