Example sentences of "was [num] [prep] [art] [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | And and that was one of the prime things that I asked |
| 2 | His speech was one of the best things I have heard . |
| 3 | Because the trouble is , I can go back to nineteen sixty four , Industrial Relations Act , which I thought was one of the best things ever bought out , whereby er the erm terms were levied to do so much training . |
| 4 | The cold veal , meat jelly and rice , scooped up with their fingers , was one of the best things , they agreed , they 'd ever eaten . |
| 5 | ‘ It was one of the best things that 's ever happened . ’ |
| 6 | It was one of the many things for which she had Rune to thank . |
| 7 | It was one of the first things she put on the wall when they re-decorated the house . |
| 8 | Mr Marchant said nationally arts cost very little but was one of the first things to be cut . |
| 9 | Whenever oligarchy took over from democracy , pay for office was one of the first things to be abolished . |
| 10 | Its neon-lit name was one of the first things visiting ships saw as they entered the harbour . |
| 11 | His grey whipcord coat with its black velvet collar hung open , and he came quickly across with that purposeful step which was one of the first things she had noticed about him . |
| 12 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 13 | Well I was hoping it 'd be interesting I mean I thought this was one of the key things at the training day I went to and I picked |
| 14 | Well that was one of the interesting things to come out of the study , something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 15 | Leaving Alexandra at her door , unkissed , untouched , was one of the hardest things he had ever done , especially when what he had really wanted to do was to carry her into her bedroom — or his — and make love to her . |
| 16 | It was one of the worst things . |
| 17 | One , that working with Frantz and Weymouth was one of the worst things that could have happened to The Mondays , and two , that they 've still got it assuming they 're produced by someone that understands them . |
| 18 | The creation of the Educational Priority Areas was one of the last things which Tony Crosland accomplished at the Department of Education and Science , and one of those that gave him the greatest pleasure . |
| 19 | So being on supplementary benefit was one of the obvious things that people in the dayroom , chose to look at , cos it affected most of them . |
| 20 | Whispering about people when they had left the room was one of the naughty things she did n't do . |
| 21 | When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide . |