Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Her brother did not know the reason and needed a woman to get close to her , and he was prepared to put up with both Mitch and herself to get to the bottom of things .
2 The SparKit LSI is announcing is the self-same kit it was supposed to come up with almost two years ago — one that would have produced a Sparcstation 2 clone for $18,000 .
3 It was good to meet up with so many others plus mates from the list .
4 Even when I was going to school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I realised that I was able to get by with just the gigs .
5 Under the aegis of James Prior , the Department of Employment was unlikely to go in for strongly anti-union policies .
6 Henry Eliot 's condition had worsened , with a bout of pneumonia on top of his leukaemia , and in anticipation of another visit to America Eliot was trying to book his passage for spring 1947 , although he was ready to fly out at once if there was a sudden crisis .
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