Example sentences of "was [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was me against the known world . |
| 2 | I almost blush with embarrassment , like it was me in the picture . |
| 3 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 4 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 5 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |
| 6 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 7 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
| 8 | Was I at the ? |
| 9 | Was I in the toilet ? |
| 10 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 11 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |
| 12 | Was you at the Park last night , madam ? |
| 13 | Then he said , ‘ It was you in the passage last night , was n't it ? ’ |
| 14 | was you er , was you in the hockey team or any thing ? |
| 15 | There were moments when Henry thought she would not turn up for the funeral , so magnificent was she about the whole thing , but as the date approached he noticed she was wearing more and more black jewellery , black scarves , capes , cloaks and jerseys , stockings , blouses and hats . |
| 16 | But , as if mesmerized , she found herself getting out of her orange caftan and darting almost minnow-like into the navy-blue dress , so ashamed was she of the greyness of her pants , which had practically detached themselves from the elastic . |
| 17 | They think they have seen her somewhere before — was she on the television last night ? |
| 18 | Or , on the other hand , was she on the level ? |
| 19 | Was she on the verge of falling into the same trap again ? |
| 20 | What size was she at the time of change ? |
| 21 | Was she at the party , the ‘ Darling , darling ’ of his letter ? |
| 22 | Owen could hardly bear to look at her , so much was she at the mercy of the music , plunging with it into pits of despair , rising with it to heights of exaltation that were almost unbearable . |
| 23 | Was she at the hospital ? |
| 24 | Why was she in the MASH camp ? |
| 25 | And as she stirred her cup of tea , and sipped it , she lost track of the conversation entirely , so engrossed was she in the visual aspect of the scene presented to her : she did not know where first to look , so dazzling and amazing were the objects and vistas and arrangements before her . |
| 26 | Nor was she in the gaming room with its low lights on green baize tables , circles of hands restless with chips , cards , cigarettes , while the tension adjusted itself with each soft call of the croupiers . |
| 27 | How long was she in the workhouse ? ’ |
| 28 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 29 | Cara had seen neither member of Frizingley 's force herself ; nor was she in the least surprised that two men armed only with truncheons should shirk from attempting to enforce their will upon St Jude 's . |
| 30 | Nor was she in the least bit jealous about whoever his engagement was with — but she 'd lay odds it was n't with his Prague-residing brother ! |