Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly the main duty of this force — if we may call it that — was ceremonial , but at a time when many of their contemporaries were off fighting in a real war , they must have looked at times like extras from a pantomime . |
| 2 | Do you remember whereabouts in the order you were in getting into the flat ? |
| 3 | The 25 workers at Julie 's company Ranzau were in mourning at the office in Milton Keynes yesterday . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the senior British military commanders were at cross-purposes over the treatment to be accorded to the BNA and the resistance identified as the AFO ( Anti-Fascist Organisation ) . |
| 5 | I thought it was worth pushing for the extra I mean when he said a thousand , I thought it would be |
| 6 | That evening , a consortium of dealers led the slightly worse for wear director to a riverside wine bar in an attempt to convince him that it was worth staying with the company . |
| 7 | Judith was well aware of the economics involved in the provision of kosher meat for Cork 's forty or so Jewish families , but it was worth submitting to a lecture on it from her mother if it helped to make her more amenable . |
| 8 | They were not as obliging as she was about disappearing before the weekly workshop . |
| 9 | His first known job was of advising on the course alterations at Pyecombe in Sussex in 1902 , but he is better known for designing from scratch some of the country 's most stunning courses — Carnoustie , Dalmahoy , Blairgowrie and Royal Blackheath , plus many , many more . |
| 10 | She entered into technical discussions with the shopkeepers in a way totally beyond the capacity of Owen and Mahmoud , explaining that while she normally wore only French perfume , she was considering experimenting with a combination of French and Arab scents : ‘ une vraie Cairéenne , n'est ce pas ? ’ |
| 11 | He was considering taking off the play . |
| 12 | Mansell last night admitted he was considering driving in the infamous Indy sports car series in the USA — despite fears about safety . |
| 13 | It was like stepping into a museum . |
| 14 | It was like stepping from a lit room into illimitable , unknowable night . |
| 15 | It was like stepping from the main street into a cobbled alley 's curiosity shop — that shock of surprise to discover again what an intricate and peculiar organ the imagination is , what extravagant uses it has found for time . |
| 16 | It was like phoning from the middle of a public toilet . ’ |
| 17 | It was like firing into a sand-pile . |
| 18 | She wondered what it was like to wake in the morning and plan things for yourself . |
| 19 | It was like stumbling upon a forgotten battlefield , which in a sense was exactly what it was . |
| 20 | From being with a squadron on a war footing at Driffield — which was a pleasant oasis in the East Riding of Yorkshire — to arriving in the Highland town of Forres , which seemed to welcome the inmates of Kinloss. was like fumbling through a series of dark curtains into some broad sunlight . |
| 21 | It was like living on a knife edge . |
| 22 | It was like living on the bottom of a pond . |
| 23 | Sometimes it was like living on the edge |
| 24 | She said it was like living in a good hotel . |
| 25 | ‘ It was like living in a Mike Leigh play , ’ Hughes remembers . |
| 26 | It was like living in an allegory . |
| 27 | Starting with the creation of the German night fighter force the author makes good use of eyewitness accounts from former Luftwaffe pilots , and goes on to portray a vivid account of what life was like serving on a night fighter unit . |
| 28 | It was like wandering in the lair of giant ants — or something . |
| 29 | There was his friend Barbara Rubin , Andy Warhol , but , most of all , once in touch with the poet himself , observes Miles , ‘ it was like plugging into the main switchboard — he knows everyone ’ . |
| 30 | Entering the village was like passing under an invisible triumphal arch , quite splendid . |