Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he and we were curious about in turn was the present and future fate of the Czech rather than the British cinema . |
| 2 | His career as a musician failed to take off and in a fit of depression one night he got drunk before he was due to on stage at a trawlermen 's club in Hull . |
| 3 | But if even if one was late from for school , he had a monitor on the doors to the outside world and when the whistle went for nine o'clock that door was closed and there The boys marshalled in the yard to er get in the lines and marched to the classes . |
| 4 | His car was involved in in collision with an articulated lorry . |
| 5 | His head cleared and he realized that he was alone except for Fiver . |
| 6 | It was unheard of for Captain and Mrs Burrows to take even half a day off during their ministry , but there were times when the older children were close to tears over their exercise books . |
| 7 | ‘ They was clean on at beginning o' week , ’ said master dyer Mike Barraclough , ruefully surveying rainbow-spattered grey trousers as 47 assorted housewives , secretaries and teachers on a Rowan Travel weekend crowded in to see him chuck red and yellow powders into a battered plastic measuring jug . |
| 8 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |