Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the best documented tales of the sighting of a sea monster occurred in 1852 , when a whaling vessel , the Monongahela , netted and took aboard a creature which was rather like a cross between a snake and a crocodile . |
| 2 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 3 | I decided to go and see one of the Bond films which was on in a cinema at Leicester Square . |
| 4 | It was presumably as a result of this that Palmerston wrote to the Treasury in May 1836 , explaining his views on the new accommodation . |
| 5 | Unlike his predecessors , he seems to have got his nobles more or less under control , and had pacified the Highlands ; but , like those predecessors , he found that England was rarely in a mood to be pacified . |
| 6 | This was so despite a provision in the Articles of the company defining " the board " as including " any committee authorised by the board to act on its behalf " . |
| 7 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 8 | She loved him so passionately , and he was so like a god in her eyes . |
| 9 | She was all for a bit of ducking and diving , that 's how everyone lived in her estimation , but from what she had gleaned recently about her sons , it was a completely different lifestyle they were after . |
| 10 | As it turned out , Donovan Reid won and I came second , missing the third individual place but feeling that I was in with a chance of making the relay team . |
| 11 | ‘ When I reached eight tries I realised I was in with a chance of records and the lads helped me as best they could . ’ |
| 12 | Also Simon is one of my best mates and I knew he 'd buckle down with the right team if he was in with a chance of winning . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Billy came to me because he was in with a bunch of fanatics . |
| 14 | We just had to sit there all day on our own , and I was in for a couple of weeks . |
| 15 | No it was in er , in was in like a plaster of paris thing |
| 16 | ‘ They also understand about that at the time Kenny left he was obviously under a lot of the stress . |
| 17 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 18 | He was clutching his foot and was obviously in a lot of pain . |
| 19 | It was perhaps as a member of Gloucester 's retinue that he fought at Bannockburn in June 1314 , where Gloucester was killed ; and his performance in the battle , for which he was later rewarded with land worth 100 marks a year , may have brought him to Edward II 's notice . |
| 20 | Golden Girl 's lead was down to a quarter of a mile . |
| 21 | It was down to a miskick by City Manager , Russell Osman , but it was no more than Town deserved and Marwood took the chance brilliantly . |
| 22 | I went to the Bluecoat School in Walsall and they erm they used to run a A T C wing in there which later to belonged to and they they brought this Hawker Demon in , which was a plane into the playground for the instruction of the A T C fellas and the kids all ripped the canvas off it for souvenirs and it was down to a skeleton in no time |
| 23 | That Hearts are still favourites to secure the UEFA Cup spot which is likely to go with that — the Edinburgh men have restored a two-point advantage and also have a game in hand — was down to a combination of Nicky Walker 's goalkeeping and , more significantly , inept finishing by United . |
| 24 | One night I was down in a bar on V Street and their tongues got loose . ’ |
| 25 | This crossed with Trevelyan 's letter , so he wrote again on 12th December , pointing out that the £30,000 voted by Parliament was only for a portion of the site authorized and that an additional £80,000 would be required to purchase the whole area . |
| 26 | They 'd seen each other every day since then ; sometimes , because of rehearsals and because Gesner had so much work to do , it was only for a drink at the Franz Joseph . |
| 27 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |
| 28 | it was only about a mile down the road that place |
| 29 | The sixteenth of May ’ or course , was only about a fortnight before Clare 's death . |
| 30 | Daak 's grinning face was only about a metre below their feet . |