Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I still had to get to New York where my plane was due to leave in about two hours . ’ |
| 2 | RACEHORSE Desert Orchid was due to return home today after a miracle recovery from major surgery . |
| 3 | Nicol , capped four times last year , was due to fly home yesterday but the Lions ' anxiety about Jones 's throat infection caused the management to ask Nicol to travel from Western Samoa to New Plymouth . |
| 4 | Nicol , capped four times last year , was due to fly home yesterday but the Lions ' anxiety about Jones 's throat infection caused the management to ask Nicol to travel from Western Samoa to New Plymouth . |
| 5 | Whom er the last one that I can r the last who was alive died just about a fortnight ago . |
| 6 | It was strange going back there after all this time . |
| 7 | One of his first undertakings was to transfer the Tropical African Services Course from the Imperial Institute in South Kensington , ‘ which is not frequented by other students of a kind to make good Administrative officers ’ , to Oxford and Cambridge , where ‘ it would , I am sure , spread interest in our services among other undergraduates of the type we want ’ ; and the great triumph of his career as a bureaucrat was to persuade the Warren Fisher committee , set up in 1927 to examine methods of recruitment into the Colonial Service , that it was unnecessary to look further afield for men ‘ who possess the qualities of mind , character and personality which make for success in the leadership of native … races ’ . |
| 8 | As Disraeli had already made clear in Coningsby , it was possible to do still better : to build a new great house from a great fortune , in order to recreate the historic role of the paternalistic landowner . |
| 9 | In addition to the immediately obvious atmospheric hazards it was possible to include less immediately obvious ones associated with volcanoes ( Clapperton , 1972 ) and earthquakes . |
| 10 | She was free to go as close to the man 's music as she dared , to stare as long as she wanted , to dance on the kerb right beside him where he seemed so tall he almost blacked out the sky , and the music so overwhelming you could hear nothing else . |
| 11 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 12 | It had to be one or the other unless she was prepared to sit up here , miss dinner and sulk . |
| 13 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 14 | ‘ Against Turkey we saw a player of David Platt 's stature putting on a wonderful performance , where he was prepared to work so hard . |
| 15 | However , the TUC was careful to keep well away from the whole issue of such a boycott and the Court of Enquiry now provided them with yet another excuse to defer any further action . |
| 16 | Only her brother was willing to go home early , towing a child and a fat pony . |
| 17 | And he waved at the magnificent room , and her whole luxurious life which she knew beyond a doubt that she was willing to give up forever . |
| 18 | At this point Bukharin did not suggest in any detail how the new equilibrium was to be achieved ; but he was willing to move more cautiously and pragmatically . |
| 19 | While the government was willing to set aside very limited funds for specialised and principally in-service training , it rejected a £40 million proposal from CCETSW to replace the two-year Certificate of Qualification in Social Work ( CQSW ) with a three-year programme leading to the award of the Qualifying Diploma in Social Work . |
| 20 | One who was willing to pay quite handsomely . |
| 21 | If they had really wished to do so , they could have found enough constituencies where Labour was a bad third and where the candidate him- or herself was willing to step down just before nominations closed . |
| 22 | Rescrawling Tommy Titmouse on her list I was interested to see how long it had grown , and I noticed that even Mercer had n't been let in without signing . |
| 23 | Also he was interested to find out more about the dead girl and her father , Ipuky . |
| 24 | I wanted to sail to the Canary Islands , but I was afraid to go too far from the shore . |
| 25 | I was afraid to go back home for fear of the trouble I 'd be in from Mum . |
| 26 | She was afraid to look round again , but the other housemaid was ready to carry soup bowls to the table and she had to do the same . |
| 27 | It was sad coming back alone to an empty house , Ianthe thought , but how much worse if it had been a single furnished room , like poor Miss Grimes . |
| 28 | They were hot and prickly to wear , and impossible to keep clean , but they charmed the child so thoroughly that she was content to sit as still and silent as a doll eyeing the dazzling frills and listening to the faint crackle of the underskirts . |
| 29 | It was impossible to say how long the tenancy would last . |
| 30 | It was impossible to say how long the tenancy would last . " |