Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment it was obvious that the Schlieffen Plan had failed and that Imperial Germany was not to sweep through to Paris in a brief , punitive , conflict , the Great War became one of grinding attrition . |
| 2 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 3 | That instinctive understanding of her place in the showbusiness scheme of things was later to rub off on Kylie 's fellow Neighbours exile Jason Donovan , who was persuaded by his long time friend to abandon ideas of hardening up his dance music into something U2ish . |
| 4 | Roman would gladly say goodbye now he was about to catch up with Garry . |
| 5 | Throwing back the covers she was about to get out of bed , when the far wall suddenly exploded inwards and a broiling mass of water burst into the room . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you might like it , ’ he commented , and Fabia had to give her special attention to catkins , and to where lilac was about to break out of bud , because as her heart began to race she could n't help but think that Ven had intended to bring her with him to Petřín , even as he 'd casually tossed that invitation at her . |
| 7 | By May , when a note from Rome told her the Brownings ' party was about to come back to Florence , she felt much more stable . |
| 8 | No sir , my job was then to pass over to Mr who made the ultimate decision as to what to do about the incident . |
| 9 | Then I met an Arab who gave me 200 francs and my ambition was never to come back to England again . |