Example sentences of "was [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spending 10 days in hospital she was back to watch the next home game , but from a safe distance . |
| 2 | The first two were closed already , but Boy looked in the windows anyway ; when he was out journeying the whole point was to stop and look at everything . |
| 3 | The Scum 's photographer was out harassing the royal family , so when a big assignment came in the editor had a problem — who could he send ? |
| 4 | Dr. Gillespie was about to examine the dead man when P.C. Clifford got back . |
| 5 | I was about to remind the hon. Gentleman that the present Government have been in office for the past 13 years and therefore must accept a great deal of responsibility . |
| 6 | She ran to the end of the alley and was about to scale the ten-foot wire fence when the bleeper attached to her belt suddenly shrilled into life . |
| 7 | As he was about to leave the little office he turned back . |
| 8 | Morton said the Princess 's astrologer , Penny Thornton of TODAY , revealed to him recently that she believed Diana was about to leave the Royal Family then . |
| 9 | ‘ I was about to say the same to you . |
| 10 | I was about to say the magic belt . |
| 11 | He paused just long enough for her to wonder if he was about to do the decent thing and invite her to join him . |
| 12 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |
| 13 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 14 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 15 | After a few polite words , Sophie was about to do the same when Giles said , ‘ Do n't go . |
| 16 | Lying within a mile of one of the leading financial centres of the modern capitalist economy which was about to reap the economic benefits flowing from the deregulation of the domestic financial market and the internationalisation of world financial markets in the 1980s ( Parkinson and Evans , 1990 ) , London Docklands was ripe for development . |
| 17 | At the end of the passage , just as Raine was about to descend the short flight of stairs to the landing , Diana shot forward . |
| 18 | She was about to ask the nearest of the women when she suddenly realised fully what had happened . |
| 19 | I , I was about to ask the same thing , yeah . |
| 20 | Alan Smith had just been appointed editor and was about to change the whole face of the paper , ditching those who revered Cilla as the greatest swinger on the block . |
| 21 | As she was about to pass the dark shape , something seemed to attach her skirt to the ground , and she had to stop . |
| 22 | Stanley also told the Committee that Scott was about to rebuild the Foreign Office and he would suggest ‘ that as unity of design is essential , Mr. Scott should be appointed to undertake the work ’ . |
| 23 | I was about to contact the American lawyer acting for the defendants , Mr William Rogers ( later to become famous as Secretary of State under Nixon ) , when the telephone rang and it was the New York Times enquiring when I was going to meet him . |
| 24 | A routine check as the vehicle was about to cross the Bavarian frontier ; insofar as one can speak of frontiers in this part of the world nowadays . |
| 25 | I felt that I was about to enter the real world , a world of miracle and meaning . |
| 26 | I was about to enter the Sixth form at the outbreak of war . |
| 27 | When Shanti was about to enter the local college of further education , a friend said to her , ‘ I do n't know what you 're going to do , Shanti . |
| 28 | In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director . |
| 29 | He knew his friend was about to win the National . |
| 30 | She who had long since learned the necessary control to hide her feelings was about to suffer the greatest humiliation of all , the fall of angry tears which would betray her sensitivity , leaving her naked and vulnerable before this man whom she had begun to trust … åd his friends … |