Example sentences of "was [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a word I would of thought it was worth finding out the meaning of . |
| 2 | The England football captain has appeared on Simon 's show and it was after reading out the press report announcing that Gary 's wife Michelle is going to have a baby , that Simon told the world he was going to be a dad , too . |
| 3 | The idea was of staking out the estate and counting on someone at the appropriate moment . |
| 4 | He said it was believed that Aeroflot , the Russian airline was also interested in starting a Transatlantic service from Stansted and was considering taking over the American Airlines route . |
| 5 | It was like filling in the blank spaces on a form and equally unprofitable . |
| 6 | It was like looking down the eye of a hurricane . |
| 7 | To use a popular metaphor from the time , getting out of Algeria was like paying off the mortgage on the nation 's future . |
| 8 | Their achievement was in pushing back the frontiers of distance running with world records . |
| 9 | So great was Paul 's obsession that the only way Mrs Bedworth could force him to take a break was by switching off the electricity supply at the mains , she told Southwark Crown Court . |