Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 2 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 3 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 4 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 5 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 6 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 7 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 8 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 9 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 10 | Mutinously she flicked her gaze back to where he was surveying her in stony silence . |
| 11 | Interestingly enough Larry Witty , the General Secretary of the Labour Party , said at last year 's Labour Party Conference that if it had not been for the steadily , steady influence of the unions during the eighties , when the Party was tearing itself in two , we would not have a Labour Party today . |
| 12 | This , made worse by the war of 1756–63 and catastrophic by that of 1778–83 , was to destroy it in 1787–89 . |
| 13 | As he spoke , he had already turned abruptly on his heel and was leading her in swift strides across the wide hallway . |
| 14 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |
| 15 | I was here in the city all the time ; watching its every move while it — and you — thought I was disporting myself in sunnier climes . ’ |
| 16 | I was holding it in such an awkward way that fingers eventually protested . |
| 17 | This was an attitude which , long afterwards , was to put him in second place to Phan Boi Chau in the opinion of the Communist Party which , although stressing the patriotism of both men , especially Phan Boi Chau , declared that Phan Chu Trinh had mistaken the principal enemy . |
| 18 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |
| 19 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 20 | His objection was that these poetic celebrations of the coarse side of army life were an offence against English traditions of Christian civilisation , forming part of a larger ‘ back wave ’ which was manifesting itself in various ways : ‘ the Hooligan in Politics , in Literature , and Journalism ’ , ‘ the Hooligan spirit of patriotism ’ , and all the other barbaric symptoms of ‘ the restless and uninstructed Hooliganism of the time ’ above which ‘ the flag of a Hooligan Imperialism is raised ’ . |
| 21 | It was that which was cutting her in two as she dangled from it . |
| 22 | The ragged hole appeared in the beard again ; it occurred to me that the shrink was baiting me in some way , teasing me . |
| 23 | Education was taking one in ten of the output of students and employed 18 per cent of those with jobs . |
| 24 | In October 1301 , Roger-Bernard III 's son Gaston , who was to succeed him in 1302 , was married to Jeanne d'Artois , sister of Robert II , count of Artois , at the very heart of the Capetian court circle . |
| 25 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |
| 26 | ‘ Jack Mahoney was blackmailing somebody in this town . |
| 27 | IT would have to be demonstrated , for example , that she was placing them in moral or physical danger with her lifestyle . ’ |
| 28 | Harry denied in his letters that this fact was influencing him in any way . |
| 29 | But this list was denied him in other areas and he then used school lists , projecting forward for the people who had left school ; but this had many errors and losses , with people moving home . |
| 30 | His approach was to nudge me in certain directions , and very quickly I came to a number of revelations . |