Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've , we 've soaked up a lot of pressure without having too many goal attempts at us , and then we 've broke away and scored two goals ; the plan 's worked a treat and I was due to do something right . |
| 2 | ‘ I was all set to do a solo record for Shrapnel , but a couple of months before I was due to do it , Mike Varney introduced me to Jason , who was only 16 at the time . |
| 3 | PC Williamson , from Portadown , Co Armagh , who was separated from his wife , was due to attend his niece 's wedding tomorrow . |
| 4 | The finished clothes were delivered to the hotel on her last morning in Paris only an hour before Bob Storrington was due to collect her for lunch . |
| 5 | Ten members of Momoh 's ruling All-People 's Congress ( APC , which was due to hold its party conference during October ) who had been suspended in July [ see p. 38326 ] were reported on Sept. 20 to have been reinstated . |
| 6 | She told the waiter someone was due to join her and waited . |
| 7 | The giant Norwegian international was due to join his country for their friendly against Sweden next Wednesday — but now he may be needed to play for Spurs against champions Leeds at Elland Road on Tuesday . |
| 8 | On the 16th , the mighty delta was due to leave her home at Waddington , Lincs , for the Channel Islanders and their Battle of Britain displays . |
| 9 | The sun was due to leave them shortly . |
| 10 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 11 | ( Crawford 's ultimate suspension from school came two weeks before he was due to take his leaving exams and he gained two CSEs by taking them in the hostel he was staying at . ) |
| 12 | Yeah , erm , I was going to is that erm it was always the same , two jobs down so it was due to go his boss would have then I 've been there as well cos he 's caused such a stink |
| 13 | Jennifer realised that she would have to run for her train if she was to be home in time ; Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30 . |
| 14 | A day or two before she was due to move she ran into a man she had known as a rather mysterious friend of Simon 's who used to turn up on leave now and again during the war . |
| 15 | The day her mother was due to put her in an institution Ursula Findlay , a nurse from Gloucestershire visited the ward . |
| 16 | The reason for this electoral angst stems from an incident in 1983 when his father was Minister for Agriculture and Nick was due to receive his degree from Newcastle University . |
| 17 | The nadir came in 1983 , when his dad was Minister of Agriculture and young Nick was due to receive his degree from Newcastle University . |
| 18 | The first of the two ten-truck convoys was due to spend its third night just inside the Serbian border . |
| 19 | The funeral service today at the church of St John the Baptist on the edge of the Lonsdale estate is just a week before Louis was due to celebrate his first birthday . |
| 20 | During the ensuing three weeks the French Foreign Minister , M. Sauvagnargues , was due to visit me in London for talks , as was the Turkish Foreign Minister . |
| 21 | Strathaven-based Yuill and Dodds , which was due to have its licence suspended for seven days from midnight on Sunday , has been given 49 days ' grace to decide whether to appeal against the decision . |
| 22 | It was intended that John would spend six months at a time with each of his parents , but when Grace was due to have him back , Herbert took her into John 's room , which was the larger of the two bedrooms in the flat . |
| 23 | About half an hour before this was due to start you could meet up to twenty orangs swinging through the trees where they had spent the day in order to get their free meal . |
| 24 | By the time the polo was due to start it was teeming with rain ! |
| 25 | I was driven by my father down to Orpington , Kent — a suburb of London — on Sunday evening , the day before I was due to start my experience . |
| 26 | However , shortly before Anne Burford resigned as chief of the EPA , she was due to announce her decision on whether to lift the ban in light of new evidence . |
| 27 | It was due to announce its decision by mid-1992 , prior to its summer recess . |
| 28 | He was due to read his own poems , but he prefaced the performance with remarking how extraordinary he found it that students obliged to attend lectures should want to turn up for more such talk after hours . |
| 29 | Just before he was due to pack his case , tidy the papers on his desk for the last time , and go home , Spittals was surprised to receive a call from the commander of the Squad , who asked the chief superintendent to call in before he went home . |
| 30 | Start-up Silla Corporation , the latest of the Sparc cloners ( UX No 385 ) , which last week was due to change its name to EOS Technologies , is promising great things on the portable screen front . |