Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Naturally , I would prefer McCoist to play because if we were without him the Maltese coach , Philip Psaila , would be entitled to rub his hands in delight . ’ |
| 2 | And it seemed to her that that broken line , I know not , oh , I know not " , expressed a level of passion as high as any the English language could achieve ; the interjection and the repetition and the archaic inversion were to her the exhaled breath of yearning . |
| 3 | It is clearly inconsistent for one who calls Jesus " Lord " to think lightly of those scriptures which were to him the supreme revelation of God . |
| 4 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |
| 5 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 6 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 7 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 8 | The thought of going home was for her the final impossibility , but she could not see any satisfactory way of avoiding it . |
| 9 | In the same month , in what was for her the last term of her formal education , Alix became engaged to Sebastian Manning . |
| 10 | and he said for tonight and she said well she said I never felt so embarrassed she said I did n't know where to put myself she said and the girl that was with her the other demonstrator |
| 11 | ‘ I was with him the other night and some of the things he was saying , I know that if he found out about us … ’ |
| 12 | He was in something the other day which I watched . |
| 13 | He brushed aside all arguments of law , and concentrated on what was to him the central issue . |
| 14 | Northam was to her the very image of unfertile ground , and yet other people lived there and stayed there when they had money in the bank and legs to walk away on . |