Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body , both young men were interested to discover , was remarkably like the statues of young women they had seen like , for instance , the Collector 's plaster cast of Andromeda Exposed to the Monster , though , of course , without any chains . |
| 2 | But where a parish was mostly in the hands of a small peasantry , and this was true of a great many parishes in Midland and eastern England , the effect would have been entirely different . |
| 3 | Our screen was situated outside the office on a patch of grass , reached by the usual cinder path , and was right on the edge of the air field . |
| 4 | With an Auriga fitted to the back of his Swift he was right on the pace at Brands Hatch , qualifying up the grid , only to have his hopes dashed when he was adjudged to have left the pits against a red light during practice . |
| 5 | Rosa Luxemburg was right on the dangers of nationalism . |
| 6 | Unlike so many beginners to Koi-keeping , Ken 's first pond was right on the button in terms of size , practicality and ease of maintenance . |
| 7 | When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection . |
| 8 | Because of the vast size of it and the difficulty of controlling it when sailing single-handed , the spinnaker was n't a sail he used much and it was right at the bottom at the aft end of the sail-locker . |
| 9 | It was right at the back of her mind but she could n't get it out . |
| 10 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 11 | However , I can debate with anyone and at any stage that Gibson was right at the time for the Dams . |
| 12 | My own mob was right at the front of the fuss : we did n't want any more secret organisations on our patch . ’ |
| 13 | We got , I was right at the front in the balcony . |
| 14 | It was right at the end of the main hunting season , and we had already watched as a group of males had twice unsuccessfully hunted the same group of colobus monkeys that day . |
| 15 | Our carriage was at the front of the train so that when she got out she was right at the end of the platform beyond the canopy with its wooden fretwork coping , in the middle of fields . |
| 16 | But the river was right over the top of it . |
| 17 | It was right over the top of this seat look . |
| 18 | that 's the one that 's , was right over the top of that |
| 19 | As it was right across the road from college everyone was hanging out the window to see what was happening . |
| 20 | He was right along the end without a sink . |
| 21 | It was right in the centre of the town , next to the Cathedral , and only two or three minutes walk away from the Sheriff Court . |
| 22 | I had with me only the name of David 's hotel which was the Intourist , which was right in the middle of town , and my Russian phrase book , which was full of phrases like , ‘ I think my leg is broken , can you stop the bleeding ? ’ which did not prove very helpful . |
| 23 | I was right in the middle of a sentence . |
| 24 | He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map . |
| 25 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
| 26 | Hall was apt to be described as ‘ a tough-as-nails reporter with a marshmallow centre ’ , though in her ‘ Dear Unity ’ role , the emphasis was rather on the concoction of sympathy than on the cutting edge of insight . |
| 27 | ‘ The doubt was rather about the impartiality of the offices . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | To the bassets , Buster 's arrival was rather like the intrusion of an irreverent outsider into an exclusive London club . |
| 30 | In Cornwall , parts of Devon , western Somerset , and the Welsh borderlands , in particular , medieval settlement was predominantly in the form of hamlets and farmsteads . |